Valery O’Connor-Vilinska’s art in the Ukrainian Literature Process of 20 Centaury

У статті, на основі архівних матеріалів і спогадів, розглядається літературна робота української письменниці, перекладачки, політичної діячки - В. О’Коннор-Вілінської. Крізь призму висловлювань героїв її творів висвітлено ставлення автора до представників тогочасної української еміграції в Європі. Аналізується зв’язки В. О’Коннор-Вілінської з українською народною культурою.The main purpose of the article was to discover a place of Ukrainian writer, translator, and political activist - V. O’Connor-Vilinska in the literature process of 20 century. Author has shown an attitude of the O’Connor-Vilinska towards the representatives of the Ukrainian emigration in Europe due to her literature characters. In addition, the author analyzed connections between V. O’Connor-Vilinska and Ukrainian traditional and folk culture. Therefore, during the USSR period this topic was unstudied, now — it is a matter of necessity to discover and restore unjustly forgotten names of those whose literature and public activity influenced not only the course of the Ukrainian literature process but also preserved the Ukrainian national identity among the diaspora. V. O’Connor-Vilinska was a head of the literary-publishing department of the Ministry of Education of the UPR. In addition, she collaborated with the various magazines like «Women’s Fate» (Kolomyia), «The World of Child» (Lviv), «Pchilka » (Uzhgorod), «Trident» (Paris), «New Ukraine» (Prague). V. O’Connor-Vilinska was not only an author but also she was working as an editor and a publisher. In 1913, she became a member of the editorial board of the monthly magazine «Syayvo», which was published in Kyiv in 1913–1914. Articles, reports, notes about the development of the Ukrainian theater, music, art were published there. Main topics of the early period of V. O’Connor-Vilinska’s literature were social problems and issues of being, faith, justice, and love. Through the heroes of the poems, the author tried to convey to the reader the importance of spiritual growth, the search for himself and his purpose in life. Literature of V. O’Connor-Vilinska developed a new direction in self-identification among the Ukrainian diaspora due to the reconstruction of places of memory in the texts. Majority of Ukrainian intellectuals rejected the new Bolsheviks paradigm and modernization of socio-economic life in Ukraine due to their close connection to “traditional Ukrainian village”. Therefore, the new topic of preserving the pre-capitalist lifestyle has become the central point in the art of those who have opposed the «vanguard of history»

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