Ministry of Education and Science, Youth and Sport of Ukraine

Lviv Ivan Franko National University

Faculty of Foreign Languages

Hryhoriy Kochur Department of Translation Studies

and Contrastive Linguistics

Reproduction Of Characters Speech In The Novel “Oko Prirvy” By Valeriy Shevchuk In Its Ukrainian Translation By Olga Rudakevych

Course Paper Done By 4^th Year Student

Andriy Ohorodnik, INP-41

Superviser: Olesya Mykolayivna Kurylyshyn

Contents

Introduction.......................................................................................................................3

Short biography of Valeriy Shevchuk...............................................................................4

Part 1. Valeriy Shevchuk's dedication in literature............................................................5

1.1 Literary works of V.Shevchuk.....................................................................................5 1.2 Valeriy Shevchuk's outlook.........................................................................................5 1.3 Valeriy Shevchuk's prose.............................................................................................6

Part 2. Information about the novel...................................................................................8

2.1 Novel “Eye Of The Abyss”.........................................................................................8 2.2 Reproduction of characters speech ….........................................................................9

Part 3. Symbols and construction elements in V. Shevchuk's novels..............................12 3.1. Symbol like the cultural code in V. Shevchuk's novels............................................12 3.2. The construction of images in V. Shevchuk's works…............................................13 3.3. The motive of death like an attributive detective genre on the basis of V. Shevchuk's works...............................................................................................................................15 3.4. Dialogues of Mykyta Stovpnyk and Sozont.............................................................16

Conclusion.......................................................................................................................19

List of references.............................................................................................................20

Introduction

The story starts off in Zhytomyr, Ukraine in the 16^th century in a monastery located outside town near the river Teteriv. There are 3 main characters – Myhailo Vasylevych who is a monk, illuminator, and a calligrapher, as well as the creator of Peresopnytskogo yevangelia, who meets up with a deacon from Kyiv and the friar Pavlo from the Carpathian mountains, they are also both monks. Together they embark on a journey to the Carpathian mountains in the search of the “Eye Of The Abyss”. They also want to gain lots of creative energy while on the path, their main reason is that they think that the “Eye Of The Abyss” is the key of making the world they live in a safe place for people to live, they want people to become good and and not be evil, they want to cure everybody, prevent all the violence and prove to everybody that good always prevails over evil and tell of their adventure afterwards. They will encounter many dangerous surprises on the road to “The Eye Of The Abyss”, lots of evil that they will have to surpass in order to reach their destination. But Unfortunately, only Myhailo Vasylevych will the one to come across the path to the “Eye Of The Abyss'.

“Eye Of The Abyss” is an amazing novel like a detective story that will definitely get the readers attention, lots of crime, religious matters, love to God, dialogues and monologues between the characters that the reader may find quite amusing.