Tiahlo K. Current Ukrainian Fiction in Representation of Ethnic and National Identities.

Current Ukrainian fiction is considered in terms of P. Bourdieu's concept of fields as well as a tool of self-description of a nation. Relationship between the fiction field dynamics and formation of the nation's ethnic and national self-identification under conditions of transformations of both fictional and ideological fields is traced. Defined, what specific characteristics has current Ukrainian literature at the point of view of different groups of readers. At the result was made the conclusion, that identification effects of the Ukrainian fiction pieces depend on a combination of their market and aesthetic characteristics.