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The article is a review of Tatiana Shevchenko’s monograph Eseistics of Ukrainian Writers as a Literature Phenomenon of the late 20th – early 21st century (Ukrainian: «Есеїстика українських письменників як феномен літератури кінця ХХ – початку ХХІ ст.”). The reviewer discusses the positive features of the monograph, considering it innovative, as evidenced by, for example, the introduction to the scientific terminology of the phrase «metative». The reviewed book is, according to the researcher, a full-fledged literary study, which fits within the framework of modern Ukrainian philology as one of the first, opening the phenomenon of the essay of the end of the 20th century. Moreover, the monograph was based on numerous source texts that were previously excluded from philological research. It is positive that the monograph proposes its own classification of the essay in Ukrainian literature, and also defines the detailed topological features of writing essays in contemporary Ukrainian literature. The author of the review did not see the negative sides of the monograph under study.