Intermediate improvisations in M. Prodanovich's novel “Red handkerchief made of pure silk”
Authors: BILYK Nataliіa 
Published: April 2023

Background. The article highlights the precedent of complex improvisational modeling of semantics in a prose work. The functionality and practice of its implemen-tation in popular intermediate forms with paratextual involvement, in particular, the phe-nomena of visual discourse are considered. Purpose. The figurative solution corresponding to a separate – complementary – model is contained in the concept of publishing M. Prodanovich's novel "Red handker-chief made of pure silk", where in a complementary configuration a combination of in-termediate photographic reproduction of the fresco by Fra Angelico is presented. Results. In the figurative experience, formed in the work of M. Prodanovich's novel “Red handkerchief of pure silk”, improvisation is distinguished, commensurate with the complementary combination of manifestations of intermedia strategy with forms of intertextual relations: in its design, conceptual and purposeful paratextual-intermediate combination, which achieves special significance in empirical terms. A clear precedent testifies to the borderline functionality of paratextuality in its systematic connection with different intermediate variants produced by samples of different types of fine arts. From this definitive position, the nonmonoform system of figurative equiv-alents of different types of comparative strategies, inherent in M. Prodanovich's novel, undoubtedly justifies special attention, where the construction and valence of diverse, commensurate sign systems. The diversity of meaning-making focuses on the modes of supporting humanistic postulates and universal values, which becomes the quintessence for the figurative equivalents of paratextual-intermediate configurations combined in the intermedia-intertextual figurative formula of complementary unity. Key words: paratextuality, intermediality, meaning-making, M. Prodanovich, Fra Angelico. Aidachich, D., 2010. Cruel theater for a cruel reality (about violence in the novel “Elisha in the Land of the Holy Carp” by Mileta Prodanovich). In: Aidachych D. Slavic Studies: Folklore, Literary, Linguistic. Kyiv: VPC “Kyiv University”.(In Ukrainian) Argan, J. K., 1990. History of Italian art, 1. Moscow: Raduga. (In Russian) Bilyk, N. L., 2018. Strategies of comparative studies in the Serbian novel at the turn of the XX–XXI centuries. Kyiv: Osvita Ukrajiny. (In Ukrainian) Božović, G. Literature is the best product of Serbian society. (e-resource). Available: http://www.plastelin.com/content/view/16/89/ [Accessed July 15, 2021] (In Croatian) Conversation with Mileta Prodanovich, 2008. In: Decoration: history, culture, art. Ukrainian-Serbian collection, 1 (3). (In Ukrainian) Genette, G., 1982. Palimpsests: Literature in the second degree. Moscow: Nauchnyj mir. (In Russian) Merenik, L., 2008. Mileta Prodanovych – self-consciousness of a postmodern artist in a time of crisis. In: Decoration: history, culture, art. Ukrainian-Serbian collection, 1 (3). (In Ukrainian) Merenik, L., 2011. Mileta Prodanović: to be in a place, to be, to be everywhere. Belgrade: Fund Vujčić collection. (In Croatian) Mileta Prodanovich: I am "trained" to notice the smallest details: Interview (electronic resource). In: Litakcent. 2009. April 13. Available: http://litakcent.com/2009/04/13/mileta-prodanovych-ja-natrenovanyj-pomichaty-najdribnishi-detali/ [Accessed July 15, 2021] (In Ukrainian) Prodanovic, M., 2008. Red handkerchief made of pure silk. Belgrade: Pillar culture. (In Serbian) Prodanovich, M., 2009. Garden in Venice. The Universe, 5–6. (In Ukrainian) Prodanovich, M., 2013. Ultramarine: Novel. Kyiv: Tempora. (In Ukrainian) Prodanovich, M., 2015. Arcadia. Kyiv: Tempora. (In Ukrainian) Rudnev, V. P., 1999. Dictionary of culture of the twentieth century. Moscow: AGRAF. (In Russian) Shaitanov, I., 2011. Triad of modern comparative studies: globalization – intertext – dialogue of cultures. In: Problems of modern comparative studies. Moscow: Journal “Vo-prosy literatury”. (In Russian) Sivachenko, G. M., 1993. Paradoxes of the Slovak novel. Kyiv: Naukova dumka. (In Ukrainian) Tatarenko, A., 2010. Poetics of form in the prose of postmodernism (the experience of Serbian literature). Lviv: PAIS. (In Ukrainian) Yarmak, V. I, 2010. Stylistic features of the use of preterite verb forms in Mileta Prodanovich's novel "Garden in Venice" and in its translation into Ukrainian. In: Comparative Studies of Slavic Languages and Literatures: In Memory of Academician Leonid Bulakhovsky, 12. (In Ukrainian)