«THT ABSOLUTE MISTER OF FORM»: VASYL STEFANYK’S NOVELLAS IN THE CONTEXT OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE UKRAINIAN PROSE AT THE END OF THE ХІХ TH – BEGINNING OF THE ХХ TH CENTURIES

The article examines Vasyl Stefanyk’s novellas, stories, images, sketches, psychograms from his early collections «The Blue Booklet» (1899), «A Stone Cross» (1900), Road» (1901) and «My Word» (1905). It is observed that the peculiarity of literary process at turn ХІХth – ХХth centuries close corresponding between creative work representatives several generations:the older one (I. Nechui-Levytskyi, Panas Myrnyi, A. Svydnytskyi, I. Karpenko-Karyi, Franko) younger (M. Kotsiubynskyi, V. Stefanyk, O. Kobylianska, L. Martovych, Marko Cheremshyna, H. Khotkevych, B. Lepkyi others). As a matter fact, opposition traditional groundbreaking often revealed itself through resistance generations, created by writers approximately same age (though not obligatorily), though in their worldview world feeling, fictional-aesthetic ideals, artistic tastes, aesthetic concepts programmes, moreover, even psychic spiritual organisation. elucidated short prose generation, i.e. those, who entered literature 1890s, witnesses an active renewal literature, authors’ searches new ways modes modelling fictional world.
 observes generation geenerates specific force field Ukrainian modernism with all its branches currents (impressionism, expressionism, neo-romanticism, surrealism, symbolism, etc.). seems many features returns (at different level development) towards «old» romanticism, particularly making personality independent social conditions existence, individual abstract general public, this unusual extraordinary, retreating imitation copying, employing unreal mystical, etc.
 In «From last decades century» Ivan Franko named Stefanyk «the absolute mister form», true artist God’s grace», «does take care reader’s attention», use any rhetorical things order to attract, chain himself». Laconism coupled capacity depth detail, tendency fragmentation plot, mood attunement, penetration into characters’ psychology, foremost, emotive sphere psyche ‒ those are distinguishing writer’s works. noticed frequently drew heroes borderline, extreme situations, where they found themselves under certain circumstances. By way, extremum psycho-world marked maximal tension, always can cope frantic pulse life. works informatively rich, intensity information hidden behind polysemanticity word, image, penetrating one. context development prose, novellas distinguish laconism expressiveness.