V. VYNNYCHENKO AND A. GIDE: AN ATTEMPT AT A COMPARATIVE STUDY

The purpose of this article is to reveal the original and common characteristics in ideological, thematic and artistic discourses of A. Gide and V. Vynnichenko's prose. The questions of the applied aspects of the literary analysis of the diaries and prose of these writers are carried out by means of a comparative analysis of the texts “Treatises”, “Counterfeiters”, “Prometheus ill-chained”, “Prophet” in order to find out the components and connections of worldview systems, methods of resolving ethical conflict, as well as genre support works of Ukrainian and French writers. The novelty of the article lies in the fact that the comparative study of the systemic comparison of the prose phenomena of A. Gide and V. Vynnychenko on the material of the texts “Treatises”, “Counterfeiters”, “Prometheus is ill- chained”, “Prophet” is carried out for the first time. Research methods: comparative, descriptive, biographical. Conclusions. A. Gide and V. Vynnychenko represening twentieth century social and literary ideal in French and Ukrainian literature “Intellectual” line of development of modernism. A. Gide tried to draw conceptual generalizations and conclusions from observations of personality. He not only assimilated the experience of his literary predecessors and contemporaries, but also somewhat ahead of them, directing intellectualism into the mainstream of existentialism. At the same time, V. Vynnychenko, accumulating the experience of the “philosophy of life,” became, in a sense, a representative of the “atheistic existentialism” movement and at the same time enriched the existential-humanistic traditions of Ukrainian philosophical culture.