"LESSON OF SCIENTIFIC HONESTY": AN ALTERNATIVE DISCOURSE ON THE EPISTOLARY OF UKRAINIAN DISSENTERS OF THE SECOND HALF OF THE 20TH CENTURY

Abstract

The article is devoted to understanding the alternative discourse of the second half of the 20thcentury in the context of the epistolary of such Ukrainian dissidents as I. Svitlychnyi, V. Chornovil, V. Stus, Z. Krasivskyi and Ya. Lesiv. The paper determines its peculiar features and specifics in the formation of literary and artistic dissidenceof the members of the Resistance Movement of the 60sin Ukraine,which has arisen due to the efforts of the creative intellectuals that will later be called the men of the sixties.A search for a new literary and artistic form of the dissidents’ epistolary text that is different from socialist realismhas been carried out.The article studies the significance of the epistolary of the men of the sixties for the creation of the alternative discourse, as well as proves the defining ideological dissidents’ principles, in particular the “lesson of scientific honesty” from O. Biletskyi, which has been learned for the rest of his life and disseminated among his like-minded people by I. Svitlychnyi.