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The author of the article is interested in the specifics of artistic documentaries in Soviet-era prose. The purpose of the study is to characterize the features of artistic documentary in Marichka Kryzhanivska’s novel Shadows, dedicated to the film director Serhiy Paradzhanov and the history of the filming of the film “Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors”. The author explains the meaning of the intertext, reveals the specifics of the image of famous figures, analyzes the expediency of combining mysticism and reality. It is determined here that the facts used in the novel vividly demonstrate the traumas of the colonial past. The combination of reality and mysticism provide an original image of the past, creating a dynamic plot.
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The subject of the analysis in this paper is the novel by Bohdan Kolomiichuk entitled The Great Prussia Hotel. From the genre point of view, the piece fits seamlessly into the so-called retro detective story with elements of the noir novel. The author’s variant of the retro detective story is clearly inspired by the classics of the genre, such as Artur Conan Doyle or Agata Christie (also contemporary ones, already containing further original modifications, such as Marek Krajewski or Konrad Lewandowski). This translates, for example, into the construction of the main character. Thus, a hybrid character is created, which appears to be a conglomerate of the features of Sherlock Holmes and Eberhard Mock. One should also pay attention to the construction of the novel space. Mapping activates various cultural and historical codes, it is not only an element accompanying the development of the plot but an expression of counter-hegemonic practice - the opposition to superficial top-down unification, anonymization and denationalization. Kolomiichuk’s novel can therefore be considered a borderland work in some places due to its multi-address character and a certain historical verve. In this context, at times drifting somewhat towards postmodernism, the Hotel smoothly fits into the trend of opening up popular literature to hybridity, borderline and multi-genre, visible since the turn of the 20th and 21st century, while taking into account national archetypes, images and motifs, and correlating them with the global (also contemporary) classics of the genre.
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Rereading the first dated work of Ukrainian literature during the Russian-Ukrainian war is especially valuable because it proves our strength. This research is relevant as drawing attention to ways of addressing significant social needs a thousand years ago allows us to identify parallels with modern public speech and rhetorical practices in the political sphere. The main scientific problem that the author tries to highlight in this article concerns the correlation of rhetoric (the art of public speaking) and poetics (the system of creative principles of the author or era) in the study of the Sermon on Law and Grace, most likely created by Ilarion, Metropolitan of Kyiv. The article aims to outline the sources we should use to learn the poetics and rhetoric of the Sermon as a medieval work. The rhetoric and the poetic of the Sermon grow out of the Judeo-Christian tradition (unthinkable without ancient influences), then enriched by Byzantine oratory, but most closely related to evangelical preaching and the liturgical tradition of Kyivan Rus.
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This article is devoted to the literary images of Lviv in the cycle of stories L’vivska seriia [The Lviv Series]. Created by contemporary Ukrainian women writers, the cycle can be considered a special archive of memory, illustrating the ways of experiencing the city and thinking about it. The study analyses the stories included in the series in two aspects: what Lviv as an entity is like in the memory of Ukrainian writers, and what selected fragments of the remembered Lviv reality they refer to in creating the literary image of the city. These two ways of remembering have been defined as the memory of the city and the memory of the place: the first term is about a systemic approach, presenting the city as a gestalt, and the second one is about specific fragments of urban reality.
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The article is devoted to the little-studied Ukrainian poet of the sixties, dissident M. Kholodnyi, his creative style, analysis of motifs, images, and symbols of lyrical heritage, and the phenomenon of creative individuality. Socio-political reflection of Ukrainian tragedies, the role of the artist and his work singled out among the motifs of his poetry. There are images of famous Ukrainian writers who are carriers of the code of national memory and help to shape the national consciousness of future generations. A separate block constitutes his intimate lyric poetry reflecting the various facets of the spiritual and corporeal together with emotions ranging from romantic to deeply sensual. It is noted that among the writers of the 60s generation, his poetry is distinguished by the presence of sharp satire and tragedy in depicting paradoxical and absurd Soviet reality.
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The article focuses on factors and manifestations of postmodern text fragmentation. A fragment is one of the central concepts of modern and postmodern literature. The modernist fragment was a means of cognitive activity and a form of its adequate representation. It was determined by the basic concept of the integrity of a literary phenomenon and recognition of its encoded meaning, as well as encouraged the reader to invent missing parts. It has been proven that for postmodernist prose, the fragment is the only possible mode of its existence, an artistic strategy and an artistic device. The postmodernist text is positioned by the game field, where equal participants play with multiple-order fragments. Such fragments include preceding artistic traditions and techniques. Text fragmentation is enhanced by equalizing the rights of the author, character and the reader. Each participant of the literary communication has their own (partial) view of the art world. Narrative strategies of prose fragmentation are determined by the ways of building rhizomatic narratives and the peculiarities of their perception by the receptionist. Ukrainian and Polish writers use various means of constructing a fragmented text at the levels of its conceptualization, narrative structure, interpretative and receptive strategy, image-based specificity (intermediateness etc.).
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W dniu 12 grudnia 2020 roku odbyła się w trybie online II Międzynarodowa Konferencja Naukowa z cyklu Filozofia bycia i przetrwania w ego-dokumentach pisarzy, malarzy і filmowców ukraińskich (od czasów Orlika do współczesnych). Jej główną inicjatorką i organizatorką była prof. Walentyna Sobol kierująca Pracownią Dziejów Polsko-Ukraińskich Stosunków Literackich w Katedrze Ukrainistyki Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego.
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The purpose of the article is to analyze a unique fragment of the manuscript of the hetman’s Pylyp Orlylk’s „Diary” („Diariusz”) from May-June 1730. The methodological basis is the understanding of handwritten notes in terms of combining matters of public importance and private life. The dominance of private discourse in the fragment analyzed here is obvious. In the tenth year of his exile in Thessaloniki, when Hetman Pylyp Orlyk actually lost hope of escaping from „mourning Babylon”, the eldest son came to the father incognito under a disguised name. The hetman’s diary entries about his last meeting with his son in Thessaloniki are extremely sincere and touching. These notes represent picturesque figures of people whom fate brought to distant Thessaloniki. Not only father and son, but the whole environment – multi-ethnic, multifunctional, multi-religious, multilingual, but still able to understand the threat of pandemic and war. In general, the „Diary” of 1720–1732 pp. – which is one of the largest in the history of world literature – is the dominant motive is „discourses”: conversations, games, discussions, including theological and philosophical. The arrival of his son inspires a powerful anthropology of memory. The conversations refresh those experiences that are related to everything that happened before and after the Poltava battle. And it was this defeat that shocked the whole being of the hetman. According to Vladislav Tatarkevich, none of the other events gives as much suffering as wars, including lost ones.
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The article’s author examines the peculiarities of “Poucheniie ditiam” [Instruction for [My] Children] by Grand Prince Volodymyr Monomakh written in the early twelfth century as the work that ushers in the era of High Middle literature of Kyivan Rus’. She emphasises “his very own picture” presented by Monomakh as the image of an ideal ruler, which was significantly different from the type of European monarch of that time. Monomakh depicted the idea of the authentic leader who met the challenges and demands of the Kyivan Rus’ state and the period of the High Middle Ages. The article’s author indicates the autobiographical protagonist of the work, constructed by Monomakh on the basis of his personal experience and life facts. Attention is paid to the text as the first example of memoir prose. Next, the author describes Monomakh’s interpretation of such categories as law, power, faith, and religion; then, she determines the Grand Prince’s understanding of Christian moral and ethical values.
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The article presents the prominent public figures in Pylyp Orlyk’s Diariusz podróżny [Travel diary]. Elements of war and fear can be found in the fate of Pylyp Orlyk and his family. The author presents a hermeneutical analysis of the text, emphasising the hetman’s private life, which is inextricably linked to his military affairs and difficult international diplomacy. The lost war with Peter I had a colossal effect on the life of Pylyp Orlyk and his family. The research revealed that Pylyp Orlyk wanted to liberate the areas of the Left and Right Banks from the Russian yoke, which in the eighteenth century brought unimaginable losses to the Ukrainian nation.
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Walentyna Sobol’s article consists of two parts. The first part retrospects to the First mentions of Skovoroda in Poland – from Bohdan Lepky’s informational textbook (1928) and Dmytro Chyzhevsky’s study The Philosophy of Skovoroda (1934) – to the dramatic resonance of the 300th anniversary of the birth of the Ukrainian philosopher celebrated in 2022. In the second part of the article, the author focuses on translating some works of the collection Garden of Divine Songs into Polish – in the projection of selected translation theories by Umberto Eco, Eugene Nida, Ezra Pound, and Jiří Levý. The experience of translating Umberto Eco’s novel The Name of the Rose by Helena Kostyukovich has been analysed. A comparative analysis of Skovoroda’s poetic works translated by Janusz Trybusiewicz and Jerzy Litwiniuk is supported by observations about the peculiarities of the translation skills of each translator. The complexity and importance of working with ancient texts are emphasised. Among the wide variety of translation concepts, the article’s author believes that the Jiří Levý’s concept is also promising. It is characterised by the desire to give scientific status to experiments on the translation by providing them with specific methods. One proposed method is multiple translations of the same text into a certain language by different translators, and then back-translation into the original language.
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The article aims at a synthesis of Polish translations of Ukrainian literature. At the same time, it analyses the cultural dialogue between Poland and Ukraine based on literary exchange. The paper’s methodology consisted of an analysis of existing studies, annotated by the author with a glossary and comments outlining successively described moments in history. The topic is current and represents a specific research gap. Thus, although the article synthesises the existing works, it simultaneously puts forward hypotheses that should be further investigated in the future. The author proposes some publications that impact emerging trends, but also those that were their effect. The analysed period spans the time from after World War I to the present day.
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The article analyses the memoir narrative (memoirs and correspondence) of the Ukrainian writer, educator, editor, and public figure Kostiantyna Malytska, which is a valuable human testimony and emotional self-description of her difficult five-year experience in Siberian exile. Malytska was the only woman among thirteen men, well-known public figures, who, in February 1915, were arrested by the Russian occupation authorities in Lviv and exiled to the Yenisei province. In her memoirs, against the background of descriptions of the military and political situation, Malytska conveys in detail her impressions of “Asia” (as she called the foreign land), the geographical environment of “disastrous Siberia”, comparing it with the toponymy of her native land, and shows the way of life of the local population of “Choldonians”. The memoirs touchingly describe meetings with new people, the spirit of sincere compatriotism between Ukrainian prisoners in a foreign land, the difficulty of “getting used to” Siberia, the experience of time, the activities of the Ukrainian community in Krasnoyarsk, and teaching at a local Ukrainian school. For their factual basis, Malytska’s memoirs are valuable as a vital source for understanding the writer’s life and human destiny, the historical and political situation in Galicia during the period of Russian occupation, and for highlighting the cultural and patriotic life of wartime Lviv and the fate of its prominent public figures who were also persecuted, arrested, and exiled.
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Walentyna Sobol’s new book is timed to a double date: the 350th birth anniversary and the 280th death anniversary of the famous personality: the poet, writer, and hetman of Ukraine Pylyp Orlyk (1672–1742). Walentyna Sobol analysed all the most important academic literature on Pylyp Orlyk’s work, and carried out thorough research, read out the manuscript text of the Diary of 1725 and 1726. Her many years of work on the manuscript and its publication took place in several stages. First, an abridged copy of Diary, made in 1830 by anonymous palaeographers, was read. Then the diary manuscript of 1724 was read. In the course of the next stage, in 2012, the researcher got hold of the original manuscript of Orlyk’ Diary, which is kept in the Diplomatic Archives of the Ministry of Foreign Aff airs of France. Walentyna Sobol compared the facsimile edition with the original and found fragments of the manuscript missing from the facsimile. The researcher concludes that Orlyk’s text shows a combination of the education received by the hetman in Vilnius and finalised in Kyiv with European influences. Th is is confirmed by both the content of the notes and their form. Baroque features of notes, and Latin-Polish macaronisms are not just a tribute to fashion but also evidence of belonging to a specific literary tradition because, in the manuscripts of letters and diaries of many pupils of the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, we see similar linguistic features. The first edition of Orlyk’s diary from 1725 and 1726 is an inexhaustible source of information for researchers in various fields, such as historians of religion, palaeographers, cultural anthropologists, linguists studying the languages spoken in the first half of the eighteenth century – Latin, Old Church Slavonic, Old Polish, Old French – their importance in the activities of European political elites.
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The presented text is an attempt to define the key poetic coordinates of the works of Lina Kostenko — the most outstanding representative of the Ukrainian generation of the 1960s.
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The article reflects on dreams about social life, disappointments and finally the belief in breakthrough moments. Two novels, Zapysky ukrainskoho samashedshoho by Lina Kostenko and Looking Backward: 2000–1887 by Edward Bellamy were used as research material. I based my analysis on the sociological concepts of the lifeworld and the theory of transformative learning. I showed that the subject of both novels was not only the critique of contemporary society and political life, but, most of all, the weakness of interpersonal relations. Thus, both of these novels not only are narratives about a specific social, political or ideological situation, but also acquire a universal dimension.
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The author analyzes the poetic and prose works of Natalia Zamulko-Dubushe (1948–2020). The Ukrainian emigrant writer, who has lived and worked in France since 1989, is the author of the Ukrainian-language poetry collection Storks of the Native Land (2004), prose books Alien Nation (2012), Rain Border (2018), and others. The aim of the article is to analyze the confessional beginning of Natalia Zamulko-Dubushe’s works. In order to comprehend the weight of the author’s personal experience in the poetic and prose narration, Valentyna Sobol compares the defining motives of the poetic and prose works of the writer. As a result of a comparative reading, the researcher draws a conclusion about the dominance of the autobiographical discourse of the entire creative work of the writer. It is shown how the motives of her poems resonate differently in prose each time. In fact, memory is the driving force in all emigration works. Returning mentally to her Ukrainian roots, the writer at the same time exposed herself as a person of the world.
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The article concerns famous Ukrainian female poet, literary critic and writer Lina Kostenko (born 1930). It is a synthetic approach, which presents the important position of Kosteno in the life of Ukrainian literature and culture as well as politic life over the past 60 years as: 1. author of revealing lyrics and poems; 2. author of high-profile journalism on current topics, especially those related to the Chernobyl tragedy; 3. participant of the dissident movement in Ukraine; 4. author of the famous novel depicting the Ukrainian intelligentsia on the eve of the Orange Revolution of 2004 – Zapysky ukrajinskogo samashedshogo (2010); 5. a moral authority speaking on matters important for Ukrainian identity and historical heritage.
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The article concerns the volume of poetry by Lina Kostenko entitled Poems, which was to be published in Poland in 1990. The selection was edited by Aleksander Ziemny. The volume was published only in 25 copies by the publishing house “Iskry.”
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