Fakty i mity w życiu i twórczości dramatopisarki doby modernizmu Łesi Ukrainki
Facts and myths of life and literary inheritance of the Ukrainian writer of modern époque Lesya Ukrainka

Summary/Abstract: Ukrainian modern époque, which lived and wrote Lesya Ukrainka, couldn’t fully accept her deep and amazing literary inheritance. Writing women did not have place to grow among patriarchal culture of writing men. This modern culture, which pretended to renewal of literature language, as a matter of facts, didn’t read Lesya’s poetry and dramas over truly. In the Soviet Union times critics excluded from her writing any national motif and wanted to prove, that she is mainly revolutionary poetess. In this way came into existence so‑called “Lesya’s myth”. Some of the myths of her life and creation was overthrew by the new critical mind, which was presented by postmodernism. Lesya is much admired and understanding by postmodernism critics, like Solomiya Pavllychko, Oksana Zabuzhko, or Nila Zborovska, then by her contemporaries, which wasn’t able to receive an outgrowing their imagination Lesya’s phenomenon. They called readers attention especially to full of passion heroines of her drama, like Miriam (heroines of the entire dramatic poem Oderzhyma — The Possessed), Priscilla (heroines of the drama Rufin and Priscilla) or Mavka (heroines of the drama Lisova pisnya — Song of the Forest). It seems to during the époques no one have completely and properly read Lesya’s Ukrainka literature heritage over. That situation leave place to future uncovering of her writing.

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