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The article is devoted to the analysis of the genetic-intertextual kontext of this Zabuzhko’s tale, in wich writer does her artistic search. Zabuzhko uses the motives of Old and New Testament, the subjects of Ukrainian folklore and so on. Also the protagonists of this philosophical tale may be interpretated as the archetypes of the Shadow and of the Person (in the context of the psychology of depth by Carl Gustav Jung). The particular importance has the hidden polemic between Zabuzhko and Lina Kostenko.