Pushko V. The Genre and Style Characteristics of Vasyl' Barka's Prose.

The thesis deals with the researching the genre and style special features of Vasyl Barka's prose, exposing its links with the author's poetic work in Ukrainian literature context of the XXth century and on the background of the tragic XX century's reality. Special attention is given to the analysis of the novel "Zhovtiy Knyaz", to the artistic interpretation of the famine in 1932-1933 in Ukraine. The adequate usage of the genre is being grounded in the thesis and the originality of the writer's novel thinking and his world understanding is being revealed, focused on the style palette, where the symbolism elements and neobaroque are the most important and all these have been proved by the thesis research author. At the same time V.Barka's re-thinking of culturological and literary sources has also been revealed and the realization of all these led to the appearance of the multistructure of the epic novel.