Hlushkovetska N. Vasyl Stus's epistolary as a synthesis of his poetical, literary-critical and translation creative work

The thesis deals with the complex analysis of poetical, literary-critical and translation aspects of VasylStus's epistolary. Нistorical-literary characteristics and theoretic-methodological principles of the writer's epistolary have been analyzed. We established that artist's private correspondence in its main treats followed the traditions of ancient epistolary. Such written communication became very popular among Ukrainian humanists and founders of polemical literature in the ХV-ХVІІ сс. - P. Sahaidachnyi, I. Mazepa, P. Orlyk. They followed the basic principles of letters structure and sense representation that F. Prokopovych, the famous philosopher and rector of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, had established in his works. Certain features of epistolary genre run through the creations of the prominent writers of ХVІІІ- ХХ сс., such as H. Skovoroda, T. Shevchenko, PanasMyrnyi, B. Hrinchenko, LesyaUkrainka, O. Kobylyanska, M. Kotsyubynskiy, I. Franko, V. Vynnychenko, O. Honchar, I. Bahryanyiy, V. Stus, I. Svitlychnyi. V. Stus's epistolary heritage let us understandhispoetry in analytical aspect. In this concern we distinguish two periods of his epistolografiya: preprison and prison. The preprison poems differ from letters. They are full of cheerful, optimistic concept of life while letters mostly reflect brutal reality of the totalitarian world. The prison period letters demonstrate author's attempts not to get lost in the isolate world of poems. V. Stus does his best to save and pass on his poems to readers. It was very important for him to hear aesthetic and literary-critical "feedback" as to the artistic value of his poems. Ethic, aesthetic and pedagogical components constitute the bulk of the letters sense. This way V.Stus tried to form his son's personality and to assure the responsibility before him even from the prison. In our study we have examined also existentialists' motives of his prison epistolary heritage. The ideological foundations of existentialism helped the poet to find strength of mind, to continue working and were constantly giving him impulses of positive moral spirit. Our investigation shows the mechanism of how national-existential theoretical aspects and practical postulates found their way to V. Stus's everyday life.