Poliukhovych O. The Phenomenon of Alienation in Ukrainian Prose of the 1920s -1940s.

The phenomenon of alienation in Ukrainian literature of the 1920s-1940s is analyzed as an ambivalent phenomenon which includes cultural, historical, social, and ideological implications. In Ukrainian prose writings of the 1920s-1930s, a destructive type of alienation is maintained, which is shown by an analysis of the literary works of Mykola Khvylovy, Borys Antonenko-Davydovych, Yuriy Yanovsky, Mykhailo Ivchenko, Yevhen Pluzhnyk, Valerian Pidmohylny, and Oleksa Slisarenko. In Ukrainian postwar prose of the 1940s, the alienation concept is connected with the notions of play and contemplation. Thus the fruitful type of alienation is a peculiar feature of the MUR writers' literary works, in which alienation can be correlated with a realm of freedom.