aaus-list @ ukrainianstudies.org -- [aaus-list] [announce] A Groundbreaking Study of Mykola Khvylovy

["Marko R. Stech" <m.stech@utoronto.ca> (by way of Robert DeLossa)]

CIUS PRESS PRESENTS
A GROUNDBREAKING STUDY
ON THE LEGACY OF MYKOLA KHVYLOVY


LEONID PLIUSHCH
IOHO TAIEMNYTSIA ABO "PREKRASNA LOZHA" KHVYLIOVOHO
(in Ukrainian)

870 pp
With an introduction by Marko Robert Stech


$59.95 (cloth) | Order

http://www.utoronto.ca/cius/publications/books/pliushch_khvylovy.htm


A co-publication of CIUS Press and the Fakt Publishers (Kyiv), Ioho
taiemnytsia is a groundbreaking and innovative study of the literary legacy
of the charismatic leader of the Ukrainian cultural renaissance of the
1920s, Mykola Khvylovy.

A brilliant writer and essayist, Khvylovy also played a key role in the
creation and life of Ukrainian literary and cultural organizations. One of
the founders of the group Hart in 1923, he soon became dissatisfied with
its toeing of the official line and left to establish the group Urbino and,
later, the elitist Vaplite. He was the primary instigator and Literary
Discussion of the 1920s (a pivotal event in Ukrainian intellectual history,
one whose significance reaches far beyond issues of literary form and
style) and a true leader of the Ukrainian cultural movement of the time.
His suicide in 1933 was interpreted as a desperate act of protest against
Stalin's terror in Ukraine and the man-made famine-genocide of 1932-33.

Because of his personal charisma and the influence he exerted on his
contemporaries as well as the complexity of his lyrical-ornamental texts,
in the minds of most interpretors of his legacy, Khvylovy the writer was
for many years overshadowed by Khvylovy the cultural leader. Leonid
Pliushch's revolutionary interpretation of Khvylovy's prose, poems, and
essays, shows him not as a political and cultural figure and sympathiser of
the Communist ideology (albeit with a strongly Ukrainian national
character), but as a master prose writer and a mystic who developed a
sophisticated code of transcendental symbols and ideas closely linked to
the mystical teaching of anthroposophy. On Khvylovy's example, Pliushch
re-interprets much of what has been assumed about the Ukrainian culture of
the 1920s and uncovers mystical elements in the works of other Ukrainian
and Russian "revolutionary" writers.


Ekzod Tarasa Shevchenka was Leonid Pliushch's debut as a literary scholar
and critic in 1986. Previously he completed his studies at the University
of Kyiv with a degree in mathematics and worked at the Institute of
Cybernetics. A critic of human rights abuses in the USSR, he was arrested
by the KGB in 1972 and incarcerated in a psychiatric institution. Pressure
from French mathematicians, led to his release and expulsion from the USSR.
His autobiography V karnavali istorii (At the Carnival of History) was
published in 1977 and has been translated into English, French, Italian and
German. Ioho taiemnytsia is Pliushch's second book of literary criticism.
He resides in France.


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Mail: CIUS Press, 450 Athabasca Hall, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB,
Canada  T6G 2E8.



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Dr. Marko R. Stech
Managing Director, CIUS Press
Project Manager, Internet Encyclopedia of Ukraine
Project Manager, Hrushevsky Translation Project

Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies
University of Toronto
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