Graniczne kształty ukraińskiego dramatu. Nataliia Maliutina, Ukraińska dramaturgia końca XIX i początku XX wieku. Redakcja naukowa Bogusław Bakuła, Agnieszka Matusiak, Toruń: Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek, 271 s.

The review analyses the new book of professor Natalia Maliutina Ukrainian Drama of the End of XIX and Beginning of XX Centuries (Toruń 2020). The discussed book offers a systematic view of the Ukrainian drama. The author is interested in the process of the appearance of the new drama’s forms and genres on the borders of mentioned ages at the time when in Ukrainian literature period of modernism was beginning. The main attention in the book is dedicated to literary works of outstanding writers such as Ivan Karpenko-Karyi, Lesia Ukrainka, Volodymyr Vynnychenko, Oleksandr Oles. Therefore, the researcher also appeals to the creativity of less known and even forgotten writers of that time, between them Spyrydon Cherkasenko, Liubov Yanovska, Hnat Khotkevych etc. The monography of Natalia Maliutina evidences the influences of European culture on Ukrainian drama and appeals to the wide comparative problems of Europe of the mentioned period.