Among the peculiarities of national mentality which are changed in the novel "The Hunters and the Hunted" by
I. Bagriany the reasearcher distinguishes such features as individualism, cordocentrism (Greek cardia - the heart and Latin centrum - the centre) and antaeism (from the Antaeus, a giant in Greek mythology).
Problematic and outstanding questions, connected with I. Bagryany's creativity and biography, in the context of the author's ideology and Ukrainian literary process in XX century, are consider in this article.
