Apart from Lesya Ukrainka and Taras Shevchenko (who isn't even that good to begin with unless you're an ukrainaboo), did Ukraine produce any literature of actual worth?
>of actual worth
>>9396224
Isn't Gogol predominantly russian though?
>>9396224
>>9396247
He was Ukrainian, but worked in Russia and published his writings in Russia IIRC
The first manuscript of Taras Bulba was really Ukrainian-independence-focused, but he reworked it to jive with Russian political correctness
>>9396212
Shevchenko is highly praised in Ukraine mostly because he fits into the rebel-peasant national narrative myth, and in the the Ukrainian diaspora he is popular because muh nostalgia.
100% it's just because he describes the land in a way that most people remember it
I think Ukraine considers this guy an Ukrainian writer
Bulgakov writing sympathetically and well upon the Ukranian middle class.