Межовий досвід себеписання Євгенії Кононенко
Limit-Experience in the Autofiction of Yevheniia Kononenko

Summary/Abstract: Yevheniia Kononenko’s diary novel That Crazy Year became the object of this study. This text is interesting for researching from several points of view. First of all, it represents an original example of Ukrainian non-fiction. At the same time, the writing summarizes the experience of the first year of Russia's full-scale invasion in Ukraine. In the plot of the novel the author combines her private impressions of the first war days with general assessments of the situation, as well as emotional judgments with careful reflection in a very skillful way. In the composition of the text, we can find three intertwined dimensions of time. In the foreground is one year of the narrator’s life, which is described in the novel (1). In the background is a retrospective covering the previous thirty-seven years. It represents the period of the active biography of the author (2). On the third level is the universal criterion of time, which is embodied in the biblical allusion about the time for war and the time for peace (3). Yevheniia Kononenko uses characteristic features of French nonfiction, which she knows well as a writer and translator. She develops the tradition of autobiography, offering her perspective on the dramatic and tragic experiences of a civilian, a woman, an intellectual person against the backdrop of war.

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