The article analyzes some peculiar features in the English translation of the glorious Ukrainian literary monument «On the Campaign of Igor» («Slovo o polku Igoreve») by the famous American researches Jack Haney and Eric Dahl. It also considers the various publications and translations of the work in English, taking into account the Ukrainian monument translation. It is stated that in America there are very few works published by the scholars on this issue. It is connected not with the lack of interest in «On the Campaign of Igor», but it is due to the work complexity with the poem, the problems of translation, and the presence of «confusing selections», as well as unawareness of the political, economic, and everyday situation of those times. It is obvious that the American textbook «On the Campaign of Igor» is a classical scientific English-language edition containing the poem text, explanations, and key aspects. It allows American students not only to study the text of the ancient Ukrainian monument in the original language, but also learn about the historical and literary situation of those times as the Americans imagine it.

The article analyses the novel “The Hunger Angel” (“Atemschaukel” in original) by a German writer Herta Muller (Herta Müller in original), who received a Nobel Prize dedicated to literature. To achieve the paper purpose the following methods are used: the method of conceptual analysis, the method of science fiction analysis, the comparative method. In the novel the mentality of a dominant narrator is being observed. The narrator himself is genetically incorporated in the German ethno culture and his fate is bound to the specific Romanian, Ukrainian and Austrian realities. The novel can be freely associated with a special modeling estacade where the main directions of route-visual movement are verified. The events and figurative associations that are set out in the novel are actually being interpreted through the narrator’s conscience. A mental collision with senses of otherness, personal, different, counter-reality and parallel reality in the novel are shown. The geo mental collisions of the main character Leopold Auberg are made in a way that they can touch and consume personal and intimate feelings together with wide and global social tendencies that are inherent to the daily life events of second half of the ХХ century.