Із метою „підшукування нових динамічних форм вислову”. „Дванадцятка” як авангардне явище в українській літературі

“The Twelve” was the name of a group of Ukrainian littérateurs, active during the period of 1934 to 1939 in Lviv. The phenomenon of “Lviv’s youngest literary bohemians of the 1930s” (W. Gabor) was discovered relatively recently, which explains why despite a growing interest of researchers it remains obscure and undervalued in Ukrainian literary studies. Worthy of mention is the innovativeness of “The Twelve”, always avant-garde in their search for new forms of speech, both when it comes to urban prose (Anatol Kurdydyk, Zenon Tarnavsky, Bohdan Nyzhankivsky) and the prose about the villages (Vasil Tkachuk) as well as to the bohemianist style that the group exhibited. This paper is therefore an attempt to determine the extent of innovativeness (the avant- -garde solutions in both the functioning and literary legacy) of “The Twelve”.