The ideological and aesthetic content of discourse in the epistolary of M. Voronyi.

Abstract

The article focuses on revealing the ideological and aesthetic views of Mykola Voronyi in his epistolary, which is considered in the cultural space of society. The article uses archive materials in the department of handwritten funds of the Institute of Literature named after T. Shevchenko of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. It was established that Mykola Voronyi maintained close ties with many socio-political and cultural figures: M. Hrushevsky, M. Kotsubinsky, O. Biletsky, I. Shrag and others. At the same time, the poet modestly assessed his creative work both in quantitative and qualitative plans. It was discovered that the change in the socio-political views of the poet affected his ideological and aesthetic beliefs.

It is revealed that the epistolary poet represents the social and cultural experience of the nation of the end of the XIX – early XX century. The historical precondition for the creation of memoir literature in the article is considered as a way to preserve historical memory, to demonstrate the possibility of personal and national self-expression. Ideological and artistic views of the poet are presented in letters confirming his attraction to modernism, but at the same time the author continued to write works that had distinct features of the populist tradition. Consequently, in the ideological and aesthetic views of Mykola Voronyi, they were both signs of modernism and populism.