Мотив подорожі в часі в повісті Докії Гуменної «Небесний змій» та в новелі Михайла Трайсти «Людина з того світу».

Abstract

The article traces the specifcs of modeling the plot situation of time travel in Dokia Humenna’s novel “Sky Serpent” and Mykhailo Traista’s short story “A Man from the Other World”. The purpose of the article is to analyze the features of the fantasy motif of time travel in the works of two writers. The study is relevant because the fantastic novel “Sky Serpent” and the mystical short story “A Man from the Other World” are little researched, and typological parallels between them have not been drawn yet. The motif of time travel in D. Humenna’s novel “Sky Serpent” and Mykhailo Traista’s short story “A Man from the Other World” are semantically different. D. Humenna skillfully models an exciting adventure – the story of the upbringing of a young sage, a descendant of proto-Ukrainian tribes, by representatives of an alien civilization through his initiation into the depths of sacred and scientifc knowledge by traveling through time and space on a spaceship. The author masterly combines the genre of science fction, adventure novel, and historical novel, interweaving the motif of the amazing initiation of Yar with an extremely interesting description of the ancient rites and rituals of our ancestors. Thanks to a trip to the future, Yar observes the process of the formation of the Ukrainian ethnos, which took place based on the close interaction of various tribes who inhabited the territory of modern Ukraine three thousand years ago. Time travel slows down the hero’s aging: Yar lives a day on the spaceship, and decades pass on Earth. The travel through time is irreversible for D. Humenna’s hero, he meets his great-great-grandchildren, sees the transition of Aryan tribes from matriarchy to patriarchy, witnesses the decline of totemism, the disappearance of the cult system, and the appearance of beliefs in gods. The motif of time travel in the novel “Sky Serpent” is closely intertwined with the motif of space travel in an alien spaceship (which the ancient Slavic tribes believed to be a celestial serpent, observing its movement in the sky). In M. Traista’s short story, the motif of time travel has a mystical and tragic shade, it gravitates towards existential issues. The plot comes from the folk tales about people’s communication with the dead and stories about journeys to the afterlife; it hints at the danger of reckless oaths and promises and the prohibition of breaking Christian taboos. Time travel for Peter Dunka, the hero of the short story “A Man from the Other World”, was not constructive, did not contribute to his self-improvement, but, on the contrary, brought chaos and unrest into his life. The reason for this time travel, as well as its consequences, remains outside the plot, the fnale of the story is open