YEVHEN MALANYUK AND YURIY DARAGAN – FACTOLOGICAL OVERCOME OF THE MYTH ABOUT THE «FIRST» AND «SECOND» POETS OF EMIGRATION

Abstract

Variants of the interpretation of the genesis of the theme of Ukrainian emigration poetry of 1920s and 1930s are revealed. For the first time, the main works of modern Ukrainian scientists who researched the specified problem are comprehensively analyzed. It has been asserted that the vast majority of literary critics associate the genesis of the topic of Ukrainian emigration poetry of the interwar period with the name of Yu. Daragan. At the same time, E. Malanyuk is considered the most prominent emigration poet. The opinion of one of the modern researchers is singled out, who drew attention to the tendency to somewhat simplistic praise of Yu. Daragan’s work, which is quite small in scope, in particular, his collection «Sagaidak». The comparative method and the method of factual verification proved that the book «Sagaidak» was not actually the first poetry collection printed in exile. It was noted that modern researchers, who called Yu. Daragan the first poet of the «Prague School», did not provide convincing facts for such a statement. Instead, they only used the rather subjective Євген Маланюк і Юрій Дараган – фактологічне подолання міфу ... 248 opinions of their predecessors, expressed in ideologically rather contradictory articles of the pre-war period. It has been established that the publication of the book «Sagaidak» was preceded by the publication of E. Malaniuk’s collection «Stiletto and Stylos». It was also revealed that the publication of the book «Stiletto and Stylus» by E. Malanyuk was met with reviews and articles by individual Ukrainian critics both in Ukraine and abroad. Instead, only M. Shapoval, who belonged to the same party (Socialist-Revolutionaries) as Yu. Daragan, published a review of the «Sagaidak» collection. It has been proven that the statement about Yu. Daragan as the first poet of emigration, who personally influenced the ideological and thematic direction of E. Malanyuk’s work, is just a literary myth. In fact, the facts indicate that it was E. Malanyuk who was the leading writer of Ukrainian emigration literature of the interwar period, even at the beginning of its formation Keywords: the genesis of the theme of Ukrainian emigration poetry of the 1920s –1930s , the collection of E. Malanyuk «Stylet and Stylos», the collection of Y. Daragan «Sagaidak», «Prague School», «visnykivstvo»