EROTIC SIGNIFICANCE AND GROTESQUE BODY IMAGE IN SHORT STORIES BY VOLODYMYR VYNNYCHENKO

The article outlines the modes of manifestation of the corporeal as a dominant in the artistic world of V. Vynnychenko. The author substantiates the modernist approach to the problem of the body in the writer’s short fiction, where it manifests itself in a new quality (bodily self) and not only determines the artistic space, but is a determinant of intrapersonal processes and structures. The corporeal becomes a “material substance”, a hypostasis of the human self, human subjectivity, and individuality. The lifting of the taboo on the manifestation of the corporeal as an expression of human vital intentions was embodied in the cultivation of hedonistic, erotic motives, deepened interest in any manifestations of the physiological, somatic in direct connection with mental, internal processes, the subconscious, which was embodied in the work of V. K. Vynnychenko. Therefore, the author emphasizes the specific forms and means of artistic depiction of the corporeal in the artist’s works. A detailed characterization of bestiary images is given, the essence and role of the phenomenon of the affective body in the writer’s short fiction is revealed. The researcher focuses on the portrait characterization of the characters, where a special place is occupied by an abstract portrait and a portrait “scattered throughout the text”. Particular attention is paid to the grotesque image of the body, which is clearly outlined in Volodymyr Vynnychenko’s artistic picture of the world.