MOTIVE PARADIGMS AS METACYCLIC LINKS IN THE PROSE OF YU. BUIDA

Abstract

In works of a contemporary writer Yuri Buida, various principles of organizing independent texts into a single supertext can be distinguished. The first principle is demonstrated by the example of the autobiographical novel “The Thief, the Spy and the Murderer” (2013) and a set of stories: the texts contain common characters, uniform anthroponymy and toponymy. The second principle, implying a common plot organization and a single key phrase for different artistic worlds, allows us to combine the novels “The Thief, the Spy and the Murderer” (2013), “The Gardens of Wyvern” (2021) and “The Gift of Speech” (2023) into a supertext. In all three texts, the main characters turn to the chess principle “touch – move”, each time these words sound in the context of a turning point in the life of the protagonist, after these words the hero decides not to retreat and moves to a kind of new level of life – which makes the development of his character akin to the movement of a chess piece on the board. The motif of “touch – move” is inextricably linked in the texts with the motif of transforming ugliness and deformity into beauty, which allows us to speak of a single semantic core of three different texts.