Посттравматичне письмо і риторика відсутності: Бруно Шульц – Жорж Перек – Джонатан Фоєр

The article deals with a phenomenon of textualization of trauma and analyzes the post-traumatic writing in the works by Bruno Shultz, Geoges Perec and Jonathan Safran Foer. In particular, it explores the rhetoric of Bruno Shulz’s writing as well as re-textualization and thematization of memory in the works of the next generation of Jewish authors. The rhetoric of writing is analyzed in the aspect of post-traumatic writing and post-memory as one of the actual trends of contemporary cultural studies. Kabbalah myth that refers to the idea of Holy Book is taken as a pretext for thematization of trauma in the works of the author from Drohobych. In particular, his story “Street of Crocodiles” inscribes traces of ‘emptiness’, ‘white spots’ and splits of the modern world and rhetorically marks a figure of the author’s absence (D. Goldfarb) in Schultz’s writing. The figure of absence refers both to the tragic death of Schulz in 1943 and to the post-Second World War literature on the Holocaust. Using the idea of a double response to trauma, the researcher proposes to consider phenomenon of post-traumatic writing as an analogue to post-memory (the “oscillation between continuation and splitting” in term of M. Hirsch) in the works of the next generation of Jewish writers, in particular the descendants of victims of the Holocaust and migration trauma. Such an intertext is considered through the references to topoi of memory in the works by French writer Georges Perec and American writer Jonathan Foer. The main attention is paid to the analysis of post-traumatic narration form in Perec’s novel “W, or Memorial Childhood” (1975) and of intermediality in Foer’s “The Tree of Codes” (2010).У  статті  аналізується  феномен  текстуалізації  травми  і  зразки  посттравматичного  письма в доробку Б. Шульца, Ж. Перека та Дж. Фоера. Зокрема досліджено риторику письма Бруно Шульца,  а  також  текстуальне  втілення  пам’яті  у  творах  наступних  генерацій  єврейських письменників на тему Голокосту. Риторика пам’яті аналізується в аспекті посттравматичного письма й постпам’яті як одного з актуальних напрямків сучасних культурних студій. Значну увагу приділено аналізу форм посттравматичної нарації в романі “W, або Спомини дитинства” (1975) Ж. Перека і формам інтермедіальності у книзі Дж. Фоера “Дерево кодів” (2010)

Individual, yet collective voices: polyphonic poetic memories in contemporary Ukrainian literature

This article analyzes polyphonic memory in recent works by Serhii Zhadan and Marianna Kiianovs'ka, two leading contemporary Ukrainian writers. Before focusing on Zhadan and Kiianovs'ka, the author analyzes some excerpts from poems by other contemporary writers in which memory is thematized at the crossroads of individual and collective remembering. In his latest collections, Zhadan has shown a tendency to shape his poetic world around a lyrical subject keen to collect human voices and memories with the aim of preserving them from oblivion. Kiianovs'ka’s 2017 collection Babyn Iar: Holosamy consists of memory fragments expressed by the various voices that constitute its collective subject, the victims of the 1941 Babyn Iar tragedy. In spite of the difference between these two models of poetic polyphony, the former conveyed through the mediation of a lyrical subject and the latter directly expressed by individual voices, the author here argues that Zhadan’s and Kiianovs'ka’s recent poetry successfully links the singularity of individual memory to the collective experience. He also argues that polyphonic poetic memory can be read as a strategy to overcome the opposition between the “populist” and “modernist” approaches to literature that has marked the self-perception of Ukrainian literature since the early twentieth century

Ivan Dziuba as a figure: opinions of present-day intellectuals

In this article, Ivan Dziuba is seen as a public influencer, literary critic, co-chairman of the main editorial board of the Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine. On his 90th anniversary, a combination of short communications by famous representatives in sphere of Ukrainian science and culture is presented here.Стаття об’єднує короткі нотатки відомих представників української науки й культури про громадського діяча, літературознавця, співголову головної редакційної колегії “Енциклопедії Сучасної України” Івана Дзюбу з нагоди його 90-річчя