SPECIFICITY OF AUTHOR'S SELF-EXPRESSION IN THE AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL TRILOGY PANTELEIMON KULISH "MEMORIES OF CHILDHOOD"

The article is devoted to the study of the specifics of the author's self-expression in the autobiographical trilogy of Panteleimon Kulish "Memories of Childhood", the study of the main forms, ways, means and techniques of the author's "I" presentation in the texts. Hiding under the mask of a fictitious name, the author seeks to personally represent his world, selects the most significant fragments of it and gives them a special substance and forms, in accordance with his own vision, which is formed by his mind and feelings. It is established that in the trilogy of the Ego the author is represented by various forms of the "I" - the author, the narrator and the hero, the characters and individual biographical facts of which are very close to each other, but not identical, fulfill simultaneously the meaning-forming and structure-forming functions.