Ego-text in the context of B. Antonenko-Davydovych’s creation

The article is devoted to the study of ego-texts in B. Antonenko-Davydovych’s literary heritage. Ego-text is a text that is at the intersection of documentary and fiction, based on the reflexive construction of a personality model, which is based on the reconstruction of the past taking into account data obtained in the present. Ego-text finds its expression directly in texts through the depiction of the writer’s personal life path or a certain period of life in relation to historical time. The main features of ego-texts are: first-person narration, autobiography focused on the reproduction of the author’s inner world; intimacy of presentation, identification of the author and narrator; search for identity. In B. Antonenko-Davydovych’s creation autobiographical discourse is not only as a method of artistic self-expression, but also as a tool for understanding the era, traumatic experience, and personal identity. Ego-text, as a form of writing, reflects the «I»-consciousness of the author and acquires an expressive form through diary intonations, epistolary discourse, confessional narration, as well as retrospective reconstruction of the past. In B. Antonenko-Davydovych’s creative heritage ego-text functions both directly and indirectly. To the purely memoir-autobiographical works of the writer, we include the autobiographical stories “Udosvita”, “Na shliakhakh i rozdorizhzhiakh”, a collection of memories about individual writers and their times “Zdaleka y zblyzka”. Works of fiction with elements of ego-texts include the novel “Nashchadky pradidiv”, the short stories “Smert”, “Semen Ivanovych Palokha”, “Synia Voloshka”, the stories “Dva”, “Prosvitiany”, “Soniashni pliamy”, “Shchastia”, “Chystka”, “Ivan Yevhrafovych bilshe ne nalezhyt sobi”, “Shuraburia”, “Pechatka”, works for children (“Babyni kazky”, “Zolotyi korablyk”, “Kolyshni poliaky”, “Iak soloveiko stav chyzhem”, “Kryzhani merezhky” etc.), the prose collection “Sybirski novely”, etc., in which the author implements models of self-reflection, documentation of trauma and preservation of the inner voice in conditions of totalitarian pressure.