Author: Ivchenko, Mykhailo
Title: Napoeni Dni. Povist
Description: Zaltsburg: Novi Dni, 1946. Softcover. First edition, 1 of 3000 copies; 5 1/2 x 4; pp. 88; illustrated pink wraps; light age-toning to margins; faint crease to upper corner of front wrap and minor nicks to tips of spine; overall in very good condition. Mykhailo Ivchenko (1890 - 1939) was a Ukrainian author and educator. Most of his works focused on the relationship between people and nature and world harmony. He was arrested in September of 1929 and, together with 44 other intellectuals, tried in the infamous Kharkiv trial of 1930 against the SVU (Union for the Liberation of Ukraine) - a fictitious political organization, allegedly invented by the GPU for the purpose of staging an intimidation show trial and putting a stop to Ukrainization. Under extreme psychological pressure, Ivchenko confessed to expressing anti-Soviet ideas in his books and, although he was eventually released with a suspended sentence, he never published another work in his lifetime, but he did produce manuscripts for several plays, short stories, memoirs, and a novel. His current work, published posthumously in a DP (displaced persons) camp in Germany, was of Grigorii Skovoroda (1722 - 1794) - a Ukrainian philosopher, poet, composer, and Ivchenko's inspiration. Ill.: 0. 2.

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