Парадигма примитива в поэтике экспрессионизма (по творчеству Теодосия Осьмачки)

The article describes the attempt of explication of art of Ukrainian writer Theodosius Osmachka (1895?1962) from the point of view of incorporation of paradigmatics of the primitivism into the aesthetics of modernistic era, particularly, expressionism. The author aims to prove that the artistic implementation of the expressionist intentions in poetry and prose of T. Osmachka occurred through activation of the national folklore and mythological signifi cative complex. Ideological and basic categories for a representative of Ukrainian literature of the fi rst part of the 20th century are syncretism and infantilism. The author motivates the basis of ethnic-generic matrix for creation of eschatological picture of the world