УКРАЇНСЬКА РЕЦЕПЦІЯ ПОЛЬСЬКОГО ХУДОЖНЬОГО РЕПОРТАЖУ: ПОСТРАДЯНСЬКІ РЕЦИДИВИ І СИНДРОМ ПОСТКОЛОНІАЛЬНОЇ ПУСТКИ
UKRAINIAN RECEPTION OF POLISH NEW JOURNALISM: POST-SOVIET RELAPSES AND POSTCOLONIAL ABYSS SYNDROME

(on the example of J. Hugo-Bader’s White Fever)

Summary/Abstract: For the first time in Ukrainian literary studies the specificity of the Ukrainian receptionof reportages by J. Hugo-Bader describing post-Soviet reality on the territories of Russia, Ukraine,Moldova and Transnistria is analyzed. For Ukrainian readers, it is particularly important to read thesetexts through the prism of their own experience of life after the collapse of the Soviet colossus. TheUkrainian success of White Fever is evidenced by the fact that it has undoubtedly been a powerfulstimulus to rethink the phenomenon of modern Russia and to overcome this deformed reality of deliriumtremens, in which post-communist freedom is a curse. In the article, special attention is paidto text-reactions, discussing Hugo-Bader’s linguistic skill and his reporter’s method of “hugging” theinterlocutor in order to create texts showing not only the unknown reality, but also evoking empathy.

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