Gornyatko-Shumylovych A. Intellectualism of Valery Shevchuk's Prose

We devoted to the study of the specificity V.Shevchuk's intellectual prose in two interdependent aspects: typological connections V.Shevchuk's works' poetics with the poetics of the "chimerical" novel; existentialistic principles influence on the problematics of the writer's prose. Methods: systematic-functional, aesthetic and historical-comparative. In the work for the first time an attempt has been made is a complex literary analysis of Shevchuk's output. Comprehensive analytic and synthetic studies over V.Shevchuk's intellectual prose make it possible to introduce his individual creative achievements into context of the literary criticism concept about the contemporary Ukrainian novel.