Blood and Power/ Person and State: Mykola Khvylovyi "Blue November"

Abstract

Throughout 2022, the war between Russia and Ukraine continues. From the 17th century Ukraine is trying to get rid of this aggression. And today, in 2022, Ukraine is also resisting and defending its right to own culture, language, traditions, and life. All this is achieved with the blood of Ukrainians. Bloody events, the conflict between the individual and the state, blood and power are depicted in the story "Blue November" by the Ukrainian writer Mykola Khvylovy (1893-1933).The scientific problem is to the interpretation of the author's signs-codes, which reflect modernist aesthetics, which proves the focus of Mykola Khvylovy's Ukrainian identity on European searches at the beginning of of the 20th century, which influ-enced the specificity of artistic images. The aim is to study symbols, repetitions, epi-thets, metaphors, conflicts. It is the reflection on the communist ideology that was introduced in the 1920-s, the irony and ambiguous allusions around it, that form the ideological complex in the story “Blue November”, which is the modernist "quiet" internal reaction of the intellectual resistance humane artist to the bloody challenges and majority’s immorality of that time. Writer reveals the conflict between the individual and the state system, the problems of bloody power, the destruction of humane values. the impossibility of defending Ukrainian identity.