Vilchanska Y. The Existential of Writers’ Experience in the Context of the Motive of Exile

The Thesis under discussion presents the first ever investigation of the notion of the «existentials of writers practice» on the whole, and «the existential of exile» in particular. As anthropologically and methodologically significant receptive vector of the problem of exile, the paper reveals the issues of marginality, which are defined through the notions of «lost childhood», «lost Motherland», «topos of the past», «lost Ego». In science, there are certain thematic notions, optionally related to the interpretation of such states as exile, emigration, diaspora, and voluntary wandering (nomadological vector). Starting with the review of the oldest samples and up to the contemporary modifications, we might gradually differentiate the anthropological versions of exile/escape and, consequently, come up thematically to the existentials of writers’ experience. Particular emphasis has been laid on reception / non-reception of the culture of a new (another) country by the consciousness of an emigrant author. There has also been made an attempt to differentiate the most essential paradigms of literary recreation of the childhood images, such as «a child of revolution» and «outcast’s childhood». The issue of the exile creativity («existential paradox») has been investigated for the first time. In the field of metaology, the paper under studies identifies the term «metaphor of estrangement». The analysis has been carried out at the intersection of an existential issue of exile and the theory of tropes, on the examples of European classical texts (including the experience of common prehistory of Ukrainian and Russian emigrant poets).