Talabirchuk O. Ivan Yatskanyn’s prose: problems, poetics.

This dissertation is the first one in the Ukrainian literary science that presents a systematic and conceptual research on the literary heritage of Ivan Yatskanyn, a contemporary Ukrainian writer in Slovakia. The author traced cultural and historical backgrounds of Ukrainian prose in Slovakia on the brink of centuries. This paper proposes a periodization of the literary process of the late 80s of the 20thcentury and 10s of the 21st century. The respondent came to the conclusion that I. Yatskanyn’s creative heritage takes a place of honour in the modern Ukrainian literature of Slovakia presenting it as a distinct branch of the Ukrainian community. The author also concluded that this creative heritage is an organic part of the Ukrainian literary process and clarifies its key trends and deserves attention and recognition.