PROBLEMS OF THE EDITION OF THE “JOURNAL” IN ACADEMIC EDITIONS OF COMPLETE WORKS OF TARAS SHEVCHENKO`S: HISTORY AND PROSPECTS

The article is conditioned by the need to reflect on the experience of previous publications of Taras Shevchenko's diary as a part of the academic complete works. The purpose is to identify the basic requirements and challenges that the editors will face in preparing the future issue of the Journal. Two main methods of research consist of structural analysis and exactly textual. The article analyzes poet's diary in five full editions of Taras Shevchenko's works, published by the Academy of Sciences at different times. Author especially noted main characteristics, common to all publications — completeness, scientifically-based comments, attention to the needs of the recipient (necessary reference and explanatory apparatus). The article highlights the basic principles of publishing and textology in the diary edition: closely reading into the text, correct only clearly some sort of author's mistakes, attentive work under grammar, vocabulary, phonetics, stylistics. All academic editions of the text have a number of significant deviations from the original, which must be considered and corrected in the future. Further briefly explained the main features of the proposed changes in the next full edition. It is also necessary to return Ukrainian phonetics to Shevchenko’s diary. The editors, guided by the rules of Russian orthography, corrected many words that indicate bilingualism, not only as a stylistic feature of writing a diary, but also the manner of thinking of its author. This article can be useful for the preparation of the researches of the diary of Taras Shevchenko, and also studies devoted to problems of text edition.