TY - JOUR
TI - Symphony of sadness - Olha Kobylianska’s novella Valse Mélancolique
AU - Boruszkowska, Iwona
TI - Symphony of sadness - Olha Kobylianska’s novella Valse Mélancolique
AB - 
	
		The article is a proposition of interpretation Valse Mélancolique – short stories written by the  Ukrainian women writer Olha Kobylianska (1863–1942). This is an example of literary research devoted to synthetic overview of the phenomenon of insanity / mental illness in Ukrainian
	
		Modernism literature (late nineteenth and early twentieth century). Insanity, being one of the main themes of modernist literature, today does not live to see a proper discussion in the Ukrainian literary studies. The resulting so far work has moved this issue only into a selective and fragmentary way, always on the margins of the main range of research interests, thus far definitely without exhausting problem. Madness constituted for Kobylianska one of the most important and dramatic forms of exclusion, hence the belief that the mentally ill is not so much a sick man, as enslaved, subjected to the pressure of power, deprived of the right to subjectivity, of their own forms of existence. 

VL - 2018
IS - Volume 13, Issue 1
PY - 2018
SN - 1897-3035
C1 - 2084-3933
SP - 1
EP - 13
DO - 10.4467/20843933ST.18.001.8279
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/studia-litteraria-uic/article/symfonia-smutku-valse-melancolique-olhy-kobylanskiej
KW - Olha Kobylianska
KW - melancholia
KW - sadness
KW - music