THE IMAGE OF THE WARRIOR-HERO OF THE RUSSIAN- UKRAINIAN WAR IN CONTEMPORARY ARTISTIC DISCOURSE

Abstract

The article presents the representation of the image of a warrior-hero in works of art about the contemporary Russian-Ukrainian war; outlines the moral, ethical and psychological dimensions of literary portraits of the heroes of our war. Based on a general analysis of artistic texts created «under the bullets», a new type of patriot − Man- Humanity, which is pervasive in modern artistic discourse, has been identified. Based on semi-structured (in-depth) interviews with specialists from a cohort of contemporary Ukrainian writers, critics, literary scholars, publishers, journalists, and librarians (Vasyl Vanchura, Dara Korniy, Vitaliy Zapeka, Olena Mokrenchuk, Tetyana Pylypets, Nadiia Senovska, Hanna Skorina), who actively promote the work of warrior artists and monitor the development of contemporary war literature, artistic models of war representation and the image of a warrior-hero are summarized.The artist's (military or civilian) values are also revealed: what war is for him – an event, a trauma, an existential test, a mission. A generalized analysis of the motivation of the author's writing was carried out: why write about war today and how the language of literature changes under the pressure of disaster. The specifics of genre and stylistic decisions in modern Ukrainian war literature are characterized (poetry, diaries, notes, autofiction, nonfiction, documentary, reports, stories, essays, therapeutic tales and other genres of short prose predominate, fewer examples of long prose with artistic and analytical interpretation of what was experienced are recorded). Individual receptive strategies have been recorded, that is, the vision of how war literature should be perceived by readers, what its educational and nurturing function is. An authorial classification of modern military literature has been developed (classical – by genres and genres; logical – by themes; specific – by authorship; value-oriented – by direction).