The Genre of Ukrainian Classical Novel as a Problem

The article is devoted to the novel genre in Ukrainian literature. authors offer an answer question of why appeared so late literature and what features classic has. examines historical background development 19th-century literature, which developed Austro-Hungarian Russian empires. In these empires, there were different conditions for literature: quite liberal Austria-Hungary very limited Russia due ban on language. analyzes more detail three reasons explaining emergence establishment novel: 1) language, 2) subject matter, 3) literary terminology. as a “non-canonical genre” (Bakhtin) requires direct dialogue with contemporariness, such was impossible case because language intellectuals at that time not Ukrainian. Empire, it French or Russian, Austria-Hungary, German Polish. Similarly, both new general (Ivan Kotlyarevskyi) first novels connected but heroic past, is, Cossack era 17th century (Panteleimon Kulish, Vasyl Doroshenko). issue terminology also problematic defined their large prose works novels, “opowidannia” “powist’”, using this meaning terms tradition (Erzählung) Polish (powieść), respectively.