IMAGE OF V. PETROV-DOMONTOVYCH IN MEMOIRS AND CORRESPONDENCE OF HIS CONTEMPORARIES-EMIGRANTS

Actuality. The modern study of literature now does not give the answer for a question, if it is possible to create character man from life by facilities nonfiction narration, however, convincing and full-blooded in reader’s perception as an artistic image. Stating Subject Study: forming character-image writer V. Petrov-Domontovych circle Ukrainian emigrants post-war wave due their remembrances, letters, essays. Research methodology: through comparative hermeneutic interpretation texts, also later fiction texts that formed Petrov. Aim Study. Other mechanisms reader reception work genres, then fiction, id est becomes another result – real Results Study originality. image Victor Petrov, memory representatives literary emigration recorded memoirs correspondence, no less ambivalent, than images characters fictional works Domontovych. Expatriate contemporaries saw colleague differently remembered different situations, significant people, many respects disagree with moral assessments, hostile others (as Ihor Kachurovsky, who always biased towards Yuri Sherekh-Shevelov even repeated stereotyped allegations against him after his death) they were largely controversial estimation On one hand, Domontovych deserved respect talented prose writer; on other Petrov was mystery person. His collaboration Soviet special services did cause unequivocal condemnation, since circumstances "disappearance" Munich 1949 remained unclear. Most those people spoke about this event immediately treated disappeared compassion because suspected "human beings"-brothers (Yuriy Lavrinenko) side. Image mostly appears "split", well novels Domontovich. practical significance. In non-fictional researcher can trace path formation stereotype, returning approaching prototype.