THE SECRET BY YURI ANDRUKHOVYCH: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL NOVEL IN THE FORM OF AN INTERVIEW

• Authors: Dzyk Roman , Shutiak Liliia
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This article examines the novel Taiemnytsia. Zamist’ romanu (The Secret. Instead of a novel, 2007) by Yuri Andrukhovych, one of the most famous contemporary Ukrainian writers. It analyses the expressive autobiographical nature of the author’s entire work, particularly in the context of his previous novels, which positions Taiemnytsia as the final stage in a progressive movement toward the genre of the autobiographical novel. It also examines the central issue of this genre – combining truth and invention, reality and fiction – to establish that combining both elements results in the emergence of a new genre, straddling the boundary between autobiography and novel by using the form of an interview.

Keywords

EN

YURI ANDRUKHOVYCH; MODERN UKRAINIAN LITERATURE; GENRE; AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL NOVEL

• Publisher: Institute of World Literature, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: World Literature Studies
• Year: 2023
• Volume: 15
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 110 – 120

Contributors

author

Dzyk Roman

• Department of Foreign Literature and Theory of Literature, Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University, 2 Kotsiubynsky Street, 58002 Chernivtsi, Ukraine

• https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0395-8850

author

Shutiak Liliia

• https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1408-1281

Identifiers

DOI

https://doi.org/10.31577/WLS.2023.15.4.8