Fedets Y. The Prose of Bohumil Hrabal in the context of the "Prague Irony."

The thesis is the first study within the Ukrainian Slavonic philology of the fiction texts of the contemporary Czech writer Bohumil Hrabal (1914-1997), winner of many European literary prizes. The work features out the basic artistic and typological characteristics of prose as an integral dynamic system within the context of the phenomenon called the "Prague Irony" in the Czech literature. There is also raised a number of theoretical issues of the contemporary literary criticism, in particular the marginality of the author and the character as well as the autobiographical details within the framework of the "fringe literature". The original classification of the writer's particular narrative - "idle talk" is offered, the types of pun are analyzed, and the basic principles of organizing fictional texts are determined. An attempt to expand the idea of the "Prague Irony" with regard to the dynamism of styles, features of post-modern art in the context of post-cultural crisis of the contemporary epoch andto examine the contemporary Czech literature in light of the typical similarities of literary occurrences in other European literatures is made based on the examples of Bohumil Hrabal's prose. Key words: autobiographism, "idle talk," "fringe literature," marginality, use of language, pubbitell, postmodernism, "Prague Irony."