E. MALANYUK'S POETIC MAP: VOLYNIAN HETEROTOPY

Abstract

The article is focused on understanding the specifics of the image of space in E. Malanyuk’s poetic work. The subject of the study is images of historical Volyn in the light of M. Foucault's heterotopic concept. The goal is to prove the aesthetic and heterochronic originality of the presentation of the region in the poet’s work.
The author is presented primarily as a master of literary mapping, and various spatial images, which are marked in the poet’s work by a whole range of meanings. The research overviews the facts of the intersection of the Malanyuk’s life path with Volhyn, in particular, during emigration. The main attention is paid to the geopoetical analysis of poems written in the 20s and 30s of the 20th century, such as: “Duma”, “Volodymeria”, “Dedicatory Stanzas”, “Harvest”, “Volynske” and others. The topos, which in the poetry of E. Malaniuk become symbols of historical struggles, the personification of the intemperance of Volhyn (Kremenets, Dubno, Ostrig, Volodymyr) are singled out. The special role of the pathonym Ikva in the Volyn artistic world of the poet is emphasized: the river evokes idyllic associations, ancient Greek projections, so Volyn gets the features of an utopian place. The name code of Volhyn, which is represented in E. Malaniuk’s poems by historical figures (Prince Lyubart, Olgerd) and writers (Lesya Ukrainka, U. Samchuk, O. Lyaturynska, etc.) is considered. Throughout the poems dedicated to Volyn, there is piety to the duration of time, eternity, the mythological language of which the poet is able to decipher at the level of unreality, imagination, and dream. In the expanses of Volyn, the artist meditated on the concept of freedom and affirmed his own faith in the historical prospects of Ukraine. The heterotopic feature of the region for E. Malaniuk consists in his production of retrospective visions, which prompted the author’s mythmaking, attraction to oneiric suggestion, military images, and ornithological details.