DEATH OF THE UKRAINIAN EXISTENCE IN THE NOVEL BY YE. PASHKOVSKY “THE WOLF’S STAR”

Abstract

The author of the article consider the “wolf star” portrayed in the novel as a deadly star of Ukrainian civilization, according to the reflections of E. Pashkovsky, which reveals the national peasant tragedy of expulsion from his native land analogous to death. The loss of generic relation ships leads to the loss of a rural atheistic subject not only in faith in God, but in terrible forms of superstition, and with them – and fear of the deceased.