“…Пахтить ця книжка всією запашністю України”

просторові виміри роману Тодося Осьмачки “Старший боярин”

Abstract

The path of the Ukrainian poet, writer, translator, and literary critic Todos Osmachka to Ukraine was long and difficult. In his homeland, readers had the opportunity to get acquainted with his works already after the declaration of independence. In fact, the study of the writer’s work in Ukraine began from that time. A lot has been done in this direction over the past few decades. In the creative heritage of artist, poetic works are more widely represented (8 collections, individual works). So it was well researched. However, three of his prose works (Senior Boyar, Plan to the Yard and Rotunda of the Murderers) have been analyzed less. In this article, we aim to supplement such works. In the article, we will try to analyze his novel Senior Boyar for the writer’s spatial visions, since the descriptions of space in the work deserve special attention. The space in the novel is “active” and nostalgic; it complements the storyline and conveys the natural picture of the characters’ existence, while gradually transitioning from the real to the mystical and vice versa. This is the space of the native land of the writer and the heroes of his work.