Стаття присвячена аналізу романів Галини Тарасюк “Між пеклом і раєм”, “Сестра моєї самотності” з погляду проблеми автобіографічності та крізь призму ідей філософії екзистенціалізму. Зроблена спроба довести, що поглиблене розуміння тексту твору можливе за умови його прочитання як у контексті екзистенції самої письменниці, так і в контексті понять християнської філософії екзистенції. Такий підхід забезпечує виявлення концептуальних поглядів авторки на українські реалії перетину ХХ – ХХІ ст.
The paper considers novels “Between Hell and Paradise” and “Sister of My Solitude” by Halyna Tarasiuk with a focus on their autobiographical character and in the light of the philosophical ideas of existentialism. The emphasis is made on the fact that the content of the novels is human being in all its manifestations – historical, existential, religious, metaphysical. Existential discourse is closely intertwined here with the concept of ‘blocking’ the artist in society. Features of the writer’s philosophical reflections are traced in connection with the social and political events at the turn of the 20th – 21st centuries and existential guidelines of the modern literature. It has been indicated that the existential direction of the novels by H. Tarasiuk finds itself in inner need of the author to design pages of her own biography for the manifestations of the national existence. The research focuses on the historiosophical and culturosophical foundations of the artistic consciousness of the writer. It is noted that the concepts of choice, authenticity of being, loneliness, suicide, absurdity, boundary situation, love, transcendence, suffering and death are presented as central in the philosophical discourse of her novels. It is established that the whole complex of philosophical problems is solved by the writer in the oppositions ‘artist/ruler’, ‘talent/botcher’, ‘person/crowd’, etc. As a result of the research, it is proved that an in-depth understanding of the text is possible under condition of both reading it in the context of existence of the writer herself and taking into account the concepts of the Christian philosophy of existence. Such an approach provides for identification of the author’s conceptual views on the Ukrainian realities at the turn of the 20th – 21st centuries.
