THE HISTORICAL PROSE AND THE MYTHS (A PROBLEM TO CONSIDER)
Raisa Ivanchenko’s new article “The historical prose and the myths” considers the role of historical events in Ukrainian novels in 1960-1990ies. The author analyses special features of the historical prose in it’s relation with political and cultural circumstances of that time. Great attention is paid to the level of historical trustworthiness in the prose of 1960-70ies and to the mythological way of description as the result of Soviet ideology. The article reviews the methods of mythological transformation of well-known historical personalities and facts in Ukrainian historical novels. Depending on the part of historical events in the work of art two kinds of historical novels can be distinguished: the first uses history only as a background of a novel, the second kind of novels misinterprets historical truth in accord to the ruling ideology. The author accentuates the necessity of revision of Ukrainian historical novels of the indicated period.