Dontsov, Dmytro

Poetka Ukrainskoho Risordzhimenta (Lesia Ukrainka) (the Poetess of the Ukrainian Risorgimento (Lesia Ukrainka))

Lviv, Vydavnytstvo Dontsovykh, 1922. First edition in book form (initially published in the first two issues of "Literaturno-naukovyi vistnyk" journal); 9 x 6; pp. [1], 4-35; bluish-green wraps, printed in black; sunning and a few small spots to margins of wraps; a small note and personal stamp of previous owner to title page (author, activist, and church historian Demyd Burko, pseud. Danylo Sviatogirskyi, 1894 - 1988); chips with small loss of paper to tips of spine; in good to very good condition. Dmytro Dontsov (1883 - 1973) was a Ukrainian author, journalist, and a radical political thinker with great influence over the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists. Born in a Cossack officer's family, Dontsov joined the Ukrainian Social-Democratic Labor Party in 1905, was arrested shortly after for being an instigator in "Socialist politics," and was forced to move to Vienna in 1909. After the Revolution, he returned home and was appointed Head of Pavlo Skoropadsky's Government's official news agency. By 1922 Dmytro had rejected the Nationalist ideas of his youth and had increasingly become immersed in radical Nationalism. In 1939, right before the takeover of Western Ukraine by the Soviets Dontsov fled his country for Bucharest, then Prague, Germany, Paris, and the United States until he finally settled in Toronto, where he continued writing and taught Ukrainian literature at Universite de Montreal. His current literary criticism, one of his early works, was centered around the writing Lesia Ukrainka, pseudonym of Larisa Kosach--kvitka (1871 - 1913) - poet, dramatist, short story writer, one of the leading female Ukrainian authors, and a topmost name of the Ukraine's Modernist Movement. In it, he wrote: "The key to her style lies in not giving he content of emotions, but merely suggesting their nature and intensity." . Good .

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Book number: 002963

Catalogue: Literary Criticism

Keywords: Literary Criticism, Ukraine

Friche, V. M. (Vladimir Maksimovich)

Noveishaia Evropeiskaia Literatura (1900 - 1914). Kapitalizm I Sotsializm V Literature (Recent European Literature (1900 - 1914). Capitalism and Socialism in Literature)

Moskva (Moscow), 8-ia tipo-lit. Poligrafiia. Otdela M. G. S. N. Kh. Khapilovskaia, 1919. First Edition. First edition, volume I (all published); 10 x 7; pp. [1], 4-50; purple wraps, printed and ruled in black; spine cover brittle, with small chips and chuts; fore-edge of front wrap and first several leaves unevenly trimmed; in good condition. Vladimir Friche (1870 - 1929) was a renowned historian, editor, art and literary critic, and member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. He became active in the Social Democratic Movement in the 1890s, joined the Communist Party in 1917, and headed several literature departments at various institutions. He also founded "Zhurnalist" (Journalist) in 1914 - a magazine, aimed at newsworkers, as he recognized the need for a publication to serve the people of the industry (it celebrated its 90th anniversary in 2004). Good .

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Book number: 003243

Catalogue: Criticism

Keywords: Criticism, Literature, Capitalism

Hrynevych, Iaroslav

Viruiuchyi Franko. U Storichchia Narodyn Velykoho Syna Ukrainy (Believer Franco. For the Centenary of the Birth of the Great Son of Ukraine)

Niu Iork (New York), Nakladom 2-ho Viddilu OOChSU, 1956. First Edition. First edition in book form (initially read as a lecture at Ukrainskyi Narodnyi Universytet); 6 3/4 x 4 3/4; pp. 3-29, [1]; beige wraps, printed in brown; light age-toning to margins; minor wear to edges and corners; in very good or better condition. Also included is a tipped-in, typed letter, signed by the author, to Kyiv publishing house in Philadelphia. The author, former officer of the Zaporozhian Cossacks, wrote his current literary criticism of the work of poet, journalist, political activist, and author Ivan Franko (1856 - 1916), on the 100th anniversary of the birth of the latter. Iaroslav had visited sick Franko, towards the end of the poet's life, with his mother - author Katreia Hrynevychivna - who, allegedly, like to enphasise: "I am a believer!. Very good .

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Book number: 002969

Catalogue: Literary Criticism

Keywords: Literary Criticism, Ukraine, Emigre

Koriak, V. (Volodymyr)

Selianskyi Betkhoven. Tvorchist V. Stefanyka (Peasant Beethoven. The Art of V. Stefanyk)

Kharkhiv, Ukrainskyi robitnyk, 1929. First Edition. First edition, 1 of 7160 copies; 6 x 4 1/2; pp. 3-72; red wraps, ruled and printed in white and illustrated with a photograph; chips to tips of spine with small loss of paper; uniform age-toning to leaves; small signatures of previous owner to front wrap and title page; several penciled-in notes to margins; overall in very good condition. Volodymyr Koriak (1889 - 1937) was a Jewish-Ukrainian educator, publicist, and literary critic. As a member of the Ukrainian Party of Socialist Revolutionaries, he was exiled to Kazakhstan between 1915 and 1917. According to the Internet Encyclopedia of Ukraine, he joined the Communist Party of Ukraine and became a leading exponent of the Party line of literature after the Revolution. He co-founded the All-Ukrainian Association of Proletarian Writers, the Hart Writers' Organization, and the Writers' Union of Ukraine, while authoring works on Marxist criticism, textbooks, etc. Accused of being a Trotskyist and a fascist, he was shot by the NKVD in 1937. Vasyl Stefanyk (1871 - 1936) was a Ukrainian author, politician (member of the Austrian Parliament from 1908 to 1918), public figure, and master of Expressionism. His literary output - some 59 novellas - would be remembered for being highly dramatic and deeply psychological. Koriak's current book, part of "Masova literaturno-krytychna biblioteka," was devoted to the life and work of Stefanyk and his peculiar style of writing and drew attention to the similarities between Beethoven's music and Stefanyk's way with words. Very good .

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Book number: 002704

Catalogue: Literary Criticism

Keywords: Biography, Criticism