FROM REALISM TO MODERNISM: THE BOUNDARI IN THE PROSE OF LESYA UKRAINKA

The article focuses on the process of changing stylistic trends in Lesya Ukrainka’s prose. purpose was to trace regular changes style, subject matter, form and content prose highlight main transition from realism modernism. internal modifications genre, which indicate certain writer’s technique, her worldview, have been studied. A departure instructions Olena Pchilka, who still remained positions own work, traced. Attention is drawn early stories their emphasized “fabulousness” (figurative side). dynamics worldview are observed late stories, where emphasis shifted nuanced images characters works. research Ukrainka (stories, images). object study direction (title, genre modification, structure works later ones) thematic innovation (theme abuse, theme teenage friendship, loneliness a crowd). In addition, aspects modernist techniques (images feelings, moods due fragmented phrases, incompleteness, lack resolution, use psychological analysis, philosophical fragments, intellectual vocabulary) were also investigated. Structural-typological, phenomenological methods used. analyzed orientation beginning 20th century. Signs neo-romanticism impressionism basis modernism revealed researched stories. It concluded that manifested neo-romantic impulse ins blau (up, up, high), depends aesthetic immersion artist function consciousness topic quite promising: it time feminist discourse Ukrainka, nation-building aspect existential issues