ВЕСЕЛКОВИЙ ХРАМ ДИТИНСТВА: ЖИТТЯ ТА ТВОРЧІСТЬ ЗІРКИ МЕНЗАТЮК
THE MERRY TEMPLE OF CHILDHOOD: THE LIFE AND THE WORKS OF ZIRKA MENZATIUK

Summary/Abstract: Children’s literature is that special seed from which the field of every soul will depend on in the future. If a good and high-quality seed is planted, then the harvest will be rich and bountiful; filled with erudition, a mode of thinking, a level of abstraction and tastes. We have taken upon ourselves the small challenge of introducing the literary circles with the wellknown writers of Bukovyna. This time we want to bring to your attention a talented multipotentialite, a publicist, a prosaist, and a devoted writer for the young and teenage audience – Zirka Menzatiuk. The aim of this work is: to analyse the literary heritage of this famous Ukrainian writer, to immerse into the beginnings of the creative talent of Zirka Menzatiuk, to feel the power of her artistic word and the mightiness of yet unaccomplished plans, to examine the life of the author, to seize the theme of her works and the impact of folklore on them. Taking into consideration the author’s style, content and target audience, we can say with confidence that the original creative mission of Z. Menzatiuk is not only to submerge her reader into the imaginary kingdom of unordinary images of childhood, but to bring in a light, interactive writing style, a mountain of knowledge, historic facts and life lessons. The main task of her work is didactic learning, which according to the author is fulfilled through a good book that develops the child. The article examines the writer’s biography, her best-known books, their main ideas, characters and images. A lot is said about the didactic character of Z. Menzatiuk’s writings, her aspirations for making the little ones and the youth more opened to learning, to interest them into learning the many facts of history and the present -day Ukraine. We diachronicly considered the most important life and creative events of the writer-fairy-tales, whose roots and amazing color in the images, flooded with proverbs and proverbs, language, stretched out their solid creative veins from our Bukovina, rich in talents of the earth.

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