Marakhovskaya T. The Problem of a Person in William Styron's Novels.

The objects are Styron's novels: "Lie Down in Darkness", "Set This House on Fire", "The Confession of Nat Turner", "Sophie's Choice". The aim is to define the concept of the person in Styron's creativity and means of its artistic expression. Methods are the hermeneutical method and the semiaesthetic analysis. The dissertation is the systematic research work on the concept of the person in Styron's novels, formed on the basis of the literary text complex analysis (semiaesthetic). The candidate for the degree declares that in spite of some existential and Freudian motives Styron's concept of the person may be distinguished as neoclassical, because the undoubted ethical and aesthetic constants are usually present in his fictional system (the sacred element dominates the profane one). The author makes a decision that Styron's concept of the person is in tune with the humanistic philosophical research of the XXth century and openly polemical with the propagandized national model of a real American as a Superman. The critical view on this image as a primordially destructive ideal of the modern society distinguishes William Styron. The writer shows the unsafe similarity of this national hero to "the superhuman". It is proved that the prototype of some Sophie's Choice characters is the biomythical image of Nietsche (superhuman). Sphere of use is a training courses.