Genre and type aspects in Yuriy Klavdiev’s play “The bullet collector”

The article presents the analysis of the unconventional episodes in a play by a modern dramatist Yuriy Klavdiev, revealing the main features of epic literature, lyric poetry and drama. The epic, lyric and dramatic traditions are bound in three different points of view on the protagonist: far, close and internal. Provoking a reader’s mastering of each of them, the author creates the conditions for a productive understanding of the contradictory world of a teenager.