Z dziejów ukraińskiej recepcji „Ogniem i mieczem” Henryka Sienkiewicza
From the History of Ukrainian Reception of Henryk Sienkiewicz’s Novel With Fire and Sword

Summary/Abstract: This paper is an attempt to briefly outline the problem of the incompatibility of Polish and Ukrainian national myths that influenced reception of the novel With Fire and Sword (Ogniem i mieczem) in Ukraine. While for Henryk Sienkiewicz the Cossacks were just one of the social groups and Ruthenians were an ethnicity, for Ukrainians the Cossacks became the core of their national identity. Furthermore, several concrete Ukrainian responses to the novel that appeared during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries are analysed in the paper.

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