Title: An attempt to reconstruct the historical consciousness of ukrainians in V. Kozhelianko's prose
Abstract: In historical science and fiction, the desire of man to change something in history is increasingly realized, in order to understand the logic of events and successfully create an alternative history. The purpose of the study is to try to trace the ways of influencing the consciousness of the recipient in V. Kozhelianko's prose, used by the writer to reconstruct the self-consciousness of the Ukrainian people. Therefore, the methodological basis of the article is to use simultaneously a historically comparable method and a method of contextual analysis. The scientific novelty of the work is concentrated in combining a comparative approach in analyzing the phenomena of fiction and extrapolating them to historiographic events. Conclusions. Creativity of Vasily Kozhelianko is considered in the key of the genrestyle analysis and certain aspects, such as the concept of urban prose, ironic and adventure novels in the writer's creative heritage, the historical and social novel and features of small prose against the background of modern narrative and neomodernist traditions.