Problem gallomanii w Pamiętnikach z życia Ewy Felińskiej

Summary Eva Felińska (1793-1859), the author of “Remembrances about the Siberia”, “Life Memoirs” and several other outstanding works, occupies a prominent place in the canon of Right-Bank Ukrainian romantic period of Polish literature she is also an outstanding author of memoirs, public and cultural activist born in Volyn region. Excessive use of French culture (gallomania), which led to the destruction of specific national authentity, was one of the key features of social development of the first half of the 19th century. Tracing threat to national culture, leaders of the Ukrainian-Polish border along with E. Felińska fought against the phenomenon by means of literature. The problem of gallomania in “Memoirs of the Life” by Eva Felińska is expressed at different time and spatial levels of text: axiological characteristics of the character, landscape, that allows imagining the diversified picture of epoch.