Babenko A. Poetics of Serhii Zhadan's prose.

In the context of modern Ukrainian literature, Serhii Zhadan's prose plays an important role in shaping the postmodern literary process, a bright representative of the cardinal changes taking place in the artistic consciousness of both the author and the reader of the XXI century. The study of a writer's prose, in particular his poetics, belongs to the strategic vectors of postmodern literary criticism, as it makes it possible to integrate them, like the object of scientific studies, into the broad context of European literary criticism. Serhii Zhadan’s prose, being purely postmodern in its essence, represents the state of spirituality of Ukrainian modernity, the latest artistic pursuits, which are directly related to the new awareness of the world, its corresponding interpretations in literature.