MARKO CHEREMSHYNA'S WORK IN THE LITERARY AND CRITICAL RECEPTION OF MYKOLA ZEROV

Abstract

The article consistently analyses all of Mykola Zerov's critical works on the works of Ivan Semaniuk (Marko Cheremshyna). The correspondence between them, the process of preparing and compiling all collections of the writer's works, in which Mykola Zerov was involved both as the author of the prefaces and as a compiler, are examined in detail.

It is established that one of Marko Cheremshyna's letters in all editions of his works was incorrectly dated.

It is shown that Mykola Zerov made a lot of efforts to promote Marko Cheremshyna in Naddniprianshchyna region. He organised public lectures, read Cheremshyna's works, represented the interests of the writer in Kyiv publishing houses, in particular, took care of the payment of royalties.

The author suggests that Zerov was involved in the first publication of Marko Cheremshyna's autobiography. This first publication was not in the journal «LNV» («Literary and Scientific Bulletin»), as is commonly believed, but in the journal «Life and Revolution».

For the first time, the discrepancies between the reprints of Zerov's note on the language of Marko Cheremshyna are traced. The author examines the writer's works (original and his translations), which were first published and republished in periodicals outside of Galicia by the famous literary critic. Attention is drawn to his attentive attitude to the Hutsul dialect, Zerov's conscious unwillingness to correct specifically ‘Hutsul’ words for their literary equivalent.

The most important thoughts from Mykola Zerov's literary and critical works on the uniqueness of Cheremshyna as one of the representatives of the literary group ‘Pokutska Trijcia’ are highlighted.

The conclusions state that Mykola Zerov's focused attention to Ivan Semaniuk's work is based on a clear need to express the unification idea of Ukraine.