ТВОРЧІСТЬ ГРИГОРІЯ КОСТЮКА ЯК УНІКАЛЬНИЙ ЗРІ УКРАЇНСЬКОЇ КУЛЬТУРИ

Abstract

The article deals with the Hrygoriy Kostiuk’s works as a unique face of the Ukrainian culture of 20-s-80-s of the last century. He was famous as a writer, a lit-erary and memoirs scholar, a historian and a journalist. His merit is in the research-es in the fi eld of cultural, theological, historical-publicistic and literature studies. Kostiuk being a literature historian, a literature critic, a person of encyclopedic knowledge became a prominent fi gure in cultural life of Ukraine and the Ukrainian Diaspora of the XXth century. In the time allotted by his fate he become a world-known personality, a giant of the spirit, University man. Kostiuk’s personality at-tract with his only human features as follows: tolerance, kindness and steadfast ad-herence to principle together regarding cultural and social items. Impulsive, prone to controversy, however he has romantic, mild, touching, sensitive, to the point of sentimentality, temper. He profoundly got interested in the history of Ukrainians, their problems, journalistic researches. His historical and literature, critical and historical-publicistic studies are primarily based on the cultural concept implying a free development if the Ukrainian nation. Kostiuk’s style as a publicist is distin-guished with logic and synthesis of thought, consistency and simplicity of the facts presentation, brevity of conclusion and generalizations. Kostiuk’s contribution lies in his presenting of objective assessment of the Soviet society and the contempo-rary Ukrainian science at the same time. All his life Hrygoriy Kostiuk tried to keep to his own credo, working and increasing the national cultural treasury by editions of the forgotten writers and scientists whose works of art were deleted from the Ukrainian literature history. He took care of valuable documents preservation as historical facts regarding them to be a cultural heritage. His researches propel com-prehension of his phenomenon for all scholars.