Михайло Косач як персонаж публіцистики Олени Пчілки (до питання рольових псевдонімів)

The article talks about Olena Pchilka‘s pseudonyms recorded in dictionaries, as well as unidentified as an object for a separate study. The purpose of the article is to outline phenomenology as an object of literary research pseudonyms in Olena Pchilka‘s work in general, in journalism in particular.Achieving this aim requires a combination of methodological approaches: cultural-historical and cultural-sophistic (context of the era, cultural and social mission of the author), psychoanalytical (game in process creativity), metadramatic (“role in role” parameters), linguistic (onomastic aspect of pseudonyms), and structuralist (binary role distribution). Results. In the process of creativity of artists of the 20th century dominate reflectionand conscious playing internal conflicts, and therefore the specificity of the creative process is determined by the game (in the deepest origins, sublimation equals game), and it becomes a special identifier of the author‘s style of dramatization of all genres and types of creative activity. In the article, it is proposed to do this for the first time writer‘s pseudonyms as a separate object of research, with the involvement of a number of modern ones methodologies. It is suggested in the study of writer‘s pseudonyms to turn to acting experience to use pseudonyms and roles. Several theses are offered for expression of thephenomenology of writer‘s pseudonyms. The theses are confirmed by the analysis of two unidentified pseudonyms of Olga Kosach-Dragomanova – Mykhailo Zakhidny and Mykhailo Slobidsky, which appeared in the “Vestniki zemskikh Hadiatsky” in 1917 under her editorship. Conclusions. An important aspect of these two pseudonyms is their clearly emphasized binary (common name, semantically antonymous surnames). This is the embodiment of critical thinking of Olena Pchilka and at the same time of her political foresight. In addition to the main female role, specified in the most known by her pseudonym, Olena Pchilka also created a number of male roles.