Information about the author:
Yuri Ya. Barabash
Yuri Ya. Barabash, DSc in Philology, Professor, Honorary Doctor of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Director of Research, А.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Povarskaya 25 a, 121069 Moscow, Russia.
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Abstract:
The article deals with Gogol’s opposition “Slavists vs Europeanists”, reformatted among the Ukrainian literary emigration of the mid-1940s, in particular, by one of its leaders Yuri Sherekh (Yu. Shevelyov), into the opposition “national-organic style vs Europeanist style,” and the work of Gogol was recognized as the basis of the “national-organic style.” The article reveals the vulnerabilities and vagueness of Sherekh’s position, the concept of “national-organic style” is assessed as scientifically unfounded and not confirmed by literary practice. At the same time, it is noted that the author of this concept himself later spoke critically about it.