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The article examines the specifics of simultaneous diary and writing practices in the life work of O. Kobylianska and I. Zhylenko, analyses diaries as a source of their (“creative autobiography” – by this term we propose to understand the “live” history of their own creative formation and achievements created by the writers. To achieve this goal, the article identifies the peculiarities of the writer’s diary and its influence on the author’s life and work, traces the existential and creative motives for turning to a personal diary, the peculiarities of the author’s attitude to her diary entries as a creative tool at different stages of the formation of a creative personality, and outlines the role of the diary in the process of self-analysis and creative self- affirmation of the authors. Although O. Kobylianska and I. Zhylenko kept records in different historical and cultural periods and with different time durations, the diary for them played the functions of a self-record, a chronicle of creative work, a creative archive and a writer’s workshop, self-critical and critical practice. The function of self-criticism was realised when re-reading the diary, personal and literary analysis of previous entries. In this way, O. Kobylianska and I. Zhylenko could evaluate their own ability to narrate, analyse, and convey characters, learning to forgive themselves for the past and project the future. Since the diary is written from the perspective of present events, the writers allowed themselves to imagine a future reader as a reader of their works and diary, and to address him or her with hope. By artistically comprehending daily events, they detailed everyday life, depicted landscapes, etc. and thus formed a kind of “creative laboratory” where the love of beauty, justice, and the desire not to betray their own principles were the motivators and goals. The diaries record the moment of birth of a creative idea and its implementation, contain fragments of her own works, which are formed gradually when new impressions come ... |