PONOMARENKO L. Artistic evolution of Ivan Senchenko.

. The subject is the systematic research of Ivan Senchenko's creative work from the site of it's artistic evolution. The stages of establishing of his writer's style in the context of the development of the Ukrainian literature were determined. The author described the style and genre specific of Senchenko's short stories, novells, prose cycles, pieces for children and proved in the textual analysis that predominant style peculiarities in the creative work of Ivan Senchenko on the earlier stage were impressionistic, and on the later - neorealistic. An important role in artistic evolution of writer's manner was taken by irony as an element of world sensation and as a mean of creating of an artistic world. Senchenko's ironical style was concealed opposing to the orthodoxal mimesis of totalitarian literature.