Danilina S. Reproduction of the Parodic Nature of Chuck Palahniuk's Fiction World in Ukrainian and Russian Translations

The thesis focuses on the procedures and methods of reproducing parody as a text-building constituent of Chuck Palahniuk's prose in Ukrainian and Russian translations. Parody, which has traditionally been one of major stylistic devices in creating fiction, has turned into a predominant modus of postmodernist literary works. According to postmodern philosophers, such a condition is caused by today's tendency of embellishing reality, making replicas and imitations, which would be 'better' and 'more real' than real things. Jean Baudrillard calls the world we live in 'hyperreality'. The universality and topicality of parody attracts much scholarly attention nowadays, as does also Chuck Palahniuk, whose novels are willingly translated into many languages. Hence, it seems surprising that - apart from some articles and coursepapers which discuss certain aspects of his idiostyle - no more profound research of parody in his works has been done through the prism of translation or literary studies. In 2013, Professor of English David McCracken of Coker College received a contract for a book on postmodern parody in the novels of Chuck Palahniuk. However, the monograph has not been published yet. In the light of the above, the subject of the thesis appears quite up-to-date. The insight into the philosophical and literary evolution of parody given in the paper aims to prove that the phenomenon we see as a significant constituent of Palahniuk's novels can indeed be viewed as parody. We define parody as a wide range of intertextual practices that signal some discrepancy between the plane of content and the plane of expression and stimulate the reader to reflect upon the objectivity of any human discourse, while the object of today's parody can be claimed to be the text as a human construct.