The article investigates the Ivan Franko’s literature, historical-literature and
historical works, dedicated to the Hungary. Its themes/motives is the main subject
in text of short novel “The clean race”, which are investigated in such aspects, as
ideas, symbolic details and other. The author of article interprets too historical and
literary senses and messages of I. Franko’s scientific Hungarian studies, dedicated to
the old time and actual new events, personage & problems in Austrian-Hungarian
monarchy of the middle and end of XIX-th century.
Ivan Franko’s reasoning about old literature, folklore, historic events of the XIX-th
century, as it proved in article, is still marked by deeply special knowledges, accurate
definitions and symbolic assessments, interesting literary parallels, exspressed with
meaning of the case with critical remarks. And its analyzed specifics of Hungary
reception and using of his ideas of harmonisation of the international relations
between Hungary and Ukraine. With good reason, in this article is emphasized
I. Franko’s skills as an observer and ethnopsychologist, a master of political senses,
and finally as writer-democrat and scientist-polihistor, who promoted humanism,
patriotism and high idealism, Ukrainian and Hungarian struggle for freedom.
Key words: hungaristics, dialogue, literature image, discussion, history, political
aspects, humanism.
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