Abstrakt

Author compares the bird's characters as the multifunctional elements ofthe poetics in the Ukrainian на год (Ноле the mountain) by Valeriy Shevchuk (1983) and English novel Пе bird ofnight by Susan Hill (1972). Тп both cases birds are опе important prts ofthe contents. They аге the means of suggestion and creation of emotional tune. Bird's characters in the novels contain cultural connotations, ref1ect ethnic interpretation of writer's world. Bird's character is the element of myth outlooks; it realizes itself in the bird — artist connection. This is the common feature of both novels. At the same time bird's character defines the individual author's manner: it becomes the element of fantastic and romantic poetics in the novel by V.Shevchuk and creates modernistic world in the novel of Susan Hill.