This article is an attempt to give a synthetic overview of the phenomenon of modernity in the Ukrainian literature of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. It considers the problem of the Europeanization of Ukrainian culture and presents different views of researchers on the phenomenon of modernism.

This article is an attempt to describe the great social changes of the young Ukrainian generation (“Young Ukraine”) in the second decade of the 21st century and to present Andriy Lyubka’s writing as an example of this social phenomenon. In the first part of the article I explain my understanding of the term “Young Ukraine.” In the second part I present a socio-literary analysis of Lyubka’s writing in view of the political developments in Ukraine (especially during the Euromaidan Revolution). The third part outlines the conclusions

In the legacy of Zdravko Malić (1933–1997) – a historian of literature, critic, poet and translator –  the most important Croatian polonist in the second half of the 20th century, founder of the Chair of Polish Language and Literature at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of the University of Zagreb (1965) and a longtime lecturer of Polish literature there are 19 letters written by Witold Gombrowicz to his critic. Malić was the author of the first dissertation on Gombrowicz’s work in the world, which he defended in 1965 under the title Witold Gombrowicz’s Literary Work. Though it has never been published as a whole, Malić generated from his thesis a large number of articles which he later published in the Croatian, Polish and French scientific press. With these works he confirmed that his contribution to early gombrowiczology was of an exceptional character, and that his research paved the way for the dynamic development of this polonist discipline.
The description of the correspondence is limited to a few most important dimensions: the financial and publishing problems with Malić’s translation of Ferdydurke; the “examination” of his critical competences and the enthusiastic acceptance of Malić’s doctoral dissertation by Gombrowicz; gaining the writer’s full trust and opening up to close co-operation, mutual assistance and even friendship. This is where the writer invited Malić to the world of gombrowiczology, in which the critic from Zagreb left a deep and inspirational mark.

The article is a critical discussion of Dorota Wojda’s book Polska Szeherezada. Swoje i obce z perspektywy postkolonialnej (Wydawnictwo UJ, Kraków 2015). The analysis tests theses posed by the Author and methods proposed to investigate the encounters with the Other in Polish literature and culture that constitute the object of examination of the work. The discussion contextualizes some of the postcolonial terms and perspectives applied in Wojda’s work.

The article summarizes Tamara Hundorowa’s book Tranzytna kultura. Symptomy postkolonialnoji trawmy: statti ta eseji published in Kyjiw in 2013 and discusses some crucial aspects of the original cultural theory developed there.

The review discusses the book by Katarzyna Glinianowicz, Z cienia polskości. Ukraińska proza galicyjska przełomu XIX i XX wieku, which is a postcolonial attempt at a history of Ukrainian literature. Glinianowicz analyses the representation of Polish tradition and Polish values in Ukrainian prose from Galicia and Bukovina and finds that the Polish trace in the Ukrainian culture of that period is connected with the symbolic emancipation gesture. The title – “From the Shadow of Polishness” – is a birth metaphor of the contemporary Ukrainian identity.
The reviewer appreciates the original idea of the book and finds it very interesting not only as a study on Ukrainian literature, but also as a record of the reverse side of the Polish stereotype.