Pakharenko N. Originality of Artistic Thinking of Kostyantyn Moskalets.

The dissertation deals with the study of peculiarities of K. Moskalets's artistic thinking. The problem receives attention in the main milestones of the writer's life, finds the ideological and aesthetic sources of his creative work. The author makes an attempt to examine K. Moskalets's creative work in the context of postmodern epoch and to determine his belonging to one of artistic generations according to the generational classification. The writer's originality of artistic thinking is greatly stipulated by the fact of postmodernism not being organic for him. K. Moskalets develops his own outlook, the core of which is the theory of belonging-to-nobody and connection. The peculiarities of the writer's diary that testifies the formation of his world view are analysed as well. The dissertation considers the original combination of existential problems and a postmodern form in K. Moskalets's novels, stories and short stories.