GENRE AND STYLISTIC PECULIARITIES OF YURII KLEN’S FLASH FICTION

The article examines the peculiarities of Yurii Klen’s flash fiction creation in the genre and stylistic aspect, drawing attention to the individual modes of artistic existence, the metaphysical perspective of modeling reality. Using specific examples, an attempt was made to analyze the genre and stylistic originality of flash fiction, highlighting the peculiarities of the existential manifestations, the unknowable and irrational in the human Self through the prism of style dynamics, psychological aspects. It has been proved that the verbal transmission of sounds and songs clearly and exhaustively reveals auditory perception, fills the work with deep associations, and helps the character to learn more about the world. Musicality enhances the inner image of the hero, his dreams and hopes. For the first time, we have clarified and interpreted the genre peculiarities of the short story “Apples”. It has been revealed that the linguistic ornament enriches the lyrical prose of Yurii Klen. Although ornamental poetics is modeled only in certain parts of texts, it performs fundamental functions for the entire prose work, because it expresses various leitmotivs, more comprehensively reveals the perception of the world, creates multi-aspect subtexts, intensifies the suggestive function of the word, space-time parameters, more clearly illuminates the point of view of the characters. The linguistic ornament in the short story “Apples”, in the novellas “Medallion”, “Acacia”, “Adventures of the Archangel Raphael” makes it possible to reach the level of the ontological field of social reality, to identify the philosophical line, to expand or change the scale of the artistic world, that is, the depicted one. In the Yurii Klen’s prose, ornamental poetics is distinguished by the associativity of thoughts, images, the sophistication of sayings, the richness of metaphors and other artistic devices of representation. Lyrical prose of the writer reveals the position, attitude of the narrator to his perception of the environment, society, life, his thoughts, feelings and experiences.