Prytoluk S. K.E. Franzos's novels in the conext of European educational novel in the end of XIX century.

The object of the investigation in the given thesis is K. E. Franzos's prose works and "Chiba revut voly…" by Panas Myrnyi and Ivan Bilyk, "Anton Reiser" by K. F. Moritz, "Wellhelm Meister's School Year" by Y. W. Goethe, and T. G. Shevchenko's novelette "The Artist". The objective of the dissertation is identification of K. F. Franzos's novels in particular on the basis of establishing the typological correspondences with the existing modified patterns. The practical value of the research relies in the possibility to use the obtained results for general courses of Ukrainian Literature History and Foreign Literature in the higher educational institutions. The methods: comparative typological method, historical generic method and structural-narratological method.