Davydenko I. The Interpretation of Ovid's figure in Polish, Austrian and Ukrainian literatures of the second half of the 20th century

Object: novels "Naso the Poet" by Jacek Bochenski, "The Last World" by Christoph Ransmayr, "A Scandal in the Emperor's Family" by Valentin Chemeris and the story "The summer bird on the winter shore" by Juriy Mushketyk. Aim: to expose typological coincidences and differences of authors' interpretations of Ovid's biography in Polish, Austrian and Ukrainian prose of the second half of the 20th century. Methods of research: analysis, synthesis, induction, deduction, descriptive, systemic, hermeneutical, imagological, mythological and sociological, comparative and typological, cultural and historical, biographical. Results, novelty: comparative analysis of authors' interpretations of Ovid's personality in the texts of foreign and Ukrainian writers has been done; the expansion of literary sources allowed the researcher to reasonably prove the Roman author's affiliation to traditional figures of historical and legendary origin; the specificity of Ovid's personal myth has been exposed. Field of application: course of lectures and special lectures in the History of Ancient Literature, as well as foreign and Ukrainian literatures of the second half of the 20th century for university students in the humanities.