Khoptyar A. Borys Hrinchenko's translator activity and its role in Ukrainian literary process at the end of the XIX th. - the beginning of the XXth. centuries.

The thesis deals with the complex analysis of B. Hrinchenko's translator activity and its role in the development and modernization of Ukrainian literature at the end of the 19th - the beginning of the 20th centuries. Taking into consideration the analysis of the biggest part of the B. Hrinchenko's translator creation we have an opportunity to clear up the matter of the reception of European literature in the writer's original creative work. B. Hrinchenko's translations are perceived as active factors of language, literature and nation creation, stimulus of the writer's original creative work, world-view and aesthetic evolution of the national writer around the turn of the century. Such approach helped us to emphasize the important role of the writer's translator activity in Ukrainian literary process at the turn of the cultural epochs.