Marko Vovchok’s Correspondence: Unsolved Issues of Attribution, Dating and Commenting Cover Image

Листування Марка Вовчка: невирішені питання атрибуції, датування та коментування
Marko Vovchok’s Correspondence: Unsolved Issues of Attribution, Dating and Commenting

Author(s): Bohdan TSYMBAL
Subject(s): Cultural history, Ukrainian Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: manuscript; Vasyl Domanytsky; Fedir Matushevsky; Volodymyr Naumenko; magazine “Kievskaya Starina”; correspondence; attribution; dating; commenting;

Summary/Abstract: The article deals with the publication of a part of the collection of Marko Vovchok’s letters dating back to early years of the 20th century. In particular, it studies Vasyl Domanytsky’s letters to Marko Vovchok and her letters in reply to him. The story of publishing of the writer’s letters started in 1920s. The fourth volume of Marko Vovchok’s Stories (1928) edited by Oleksandr Doroshkevych contained, among others, 98 letters written by the author to various people and 120 letters addressed to her. Insufficient studying of Marko Vovchok’s collection of letters caused a number of mistakes concerning their attribution in the edition, in particular, her letters to Vasyl Domanytsky were mistakenly attributed as letters to Fedir Matushevsky. The editors corrected this mistake in later editions, but they made some other mistakes during the preparation of the edition. The six letters from Vasyl Domanytsky that are analyzed here, were first published in Letters to Marko Vovchok (1979).

  • Issue Year: 14/2019
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 123-137
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Ukrainian