ETHIC-AESTHETIC HORI ZONS OF AN INTELLECTUAL DETECTIVE BY BORIS NECHERDA («THE DEATH OF A CARRIER»)

The means of creating the prototypes of the personages of the novel from the real peo- ple from Boris Necherda’s surrounding are very important, especially the creation of the image of a famous Odessa artist Yuriy Kovalenko and changing of aethetic search of two different but spiritually close creators. Agonal circles, spread all over the text of «The death of a Carrier», influence both genre nature of the novel and its plot and composition, creating a philosophic subtext in such a way. Thus, the novel of Boris Necherda gave a great impulse to formation of an existantial, intellectual detective in Ukrainian literature of the end of the 20th — the be-ginning of the 21st century, built on the harmony of two opposite spheres — mass-reading and eletism (immanent artistic nature of the text, which subbases creates a philological game, leading to a abyssal sense of the novel).