DREAM IN A KLEIN BOTTLE: IHOR MURATOV’S LYRIC IN THE DREAM
DREAM IN A KLEIN BOTTLE: IHOR MURATOV’S LYRIC IN THE DREAM

Summary/Abstract: Kharkov literature of the mid-20th century, after the capital was moved to Kiev, remained little known to the general public for a long time; this trend continues to this day. However, the tradition of the Red Renaissance was proudly continued by a whole constellation of extremely talented artists - Vasyl Mysyk, Ihor Muratov, Vasyl Borowy, Ivan Vyrhan, Robert Tretyakov. The article analyzes one of the poems by Ihor Muratov (In a Dream), an outstanding poet, prose writer and playwright of the 20th century. The researchers propose a micro-analysis of this poem, during which the subtexts were discovered and the hidden meanings contained in its content were deciphered. The lyrical composition reverses the typical dream of escape: what would normally be a vision of freedom becomes a nightmare of enslavement. The dream is presented as an analogy of the child's stay in the mother's womb. In the process of interpreting the poem, the similarity of the semantic structure of this text to the self-intersections of Klein's bottle, as well as other unexpected contexts and allusions, is revealed. It was found that the poem In a Dream in particular and Muratov's work in general is an unusual phenomenon in Ukrainian literature of the Soviet period and requires further research.

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