“Letters from Paris” and “Letters from London” by Mykhailo Rudnytskyi in the press
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https://doi.org/10.28925/2311-259x.2024.3.8Keywords:
Mykhailo Rudnytskyi, Galician press, travel essay, “Letters from Paris”, “Letters from London”, comparative componentAbstract
The research problem of this article is the ways of rethinking the knowledge of the foreign world in the context of the realities of one’s own homeland and the definition of the vision of a foreign land that is embodied in an actual work of art. The object of the study is the essays of the leading Galician critic Mykhailo Rudnytskyi, framed in the form of an epistolary genre and published in the pages of the Lviv daily Dilo and the emigration magazine Volia in the interwar period. The purpose of the article is to clarify the representative forms of depicting two European cultures in the context of the author’s worldview through the prism of the cycles of press publications Letters from Paris and Letters from London by Mykhailo Rudnytskyi, their formal, stylistic and thematic features, and the reasons for their wide resonance in the Galician interwar press. The main method of the study was comparative analysis, which involved a comparison between the socio-political and artistic life of France and Great Britain, centred in the capitals of these countries, and the Ukrainian realities of the time.
The study has shown that M. Rudnytskyi developed the popular genre of travel essay, giving it an epistolary form and a peculiar author’s flavour. The subject matter of the Letters… covered a wide range of socio-political, cultural, artistic and everyday life in Paris and London, which were often interpreted in comparison with Ukrainian realities. The author’s reflections on iconic cultural institutions and artistic phenomena demonstrate an attempt to find ways to ‘fit’ Ukraine into the pan-European context. The critic’s reports from the French and British capitals contributed to a deeper understanding of life in France and England; the characteristic stylistic features of M. Rudnytskyi’s publications were irony and sarcasm, paradox, aphorism, provocativeness, which significantly expanded the existing boundaries of genres and formed the author’s bright and recognisable style. Letters… caused a significant resonance and became an incentive for similar publications by other writers and publicists.
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