Author: Han, O.
Title: Trahediia Mykoly Khvyl’Ovogo (the Tragedy of Mykola Khvylovy)
Description: S. l. (Novyi Ul’m): Prometei, 1947. Softcover. First edition; 8 x 5 ¾†; pp. [2], 5-77, [1]; illustrated wraps; thin cut and a small chip to head of spine; light rubbing along edges; very good condition. Mykola Khvylovy (1893 – 1933), born Mykola Fitilev, was a prominent publicist and author of the Ukrainian Cultural Rennaisance of the 1920s, beginning his career with writing poetry and, later, switching to Expressionist prose. He was heavily involved in various literary organizations – co-founder of the Proletarian group Hart, Pluh, Valpite, and others. He developed the idea of a completely independent development of Ukrainian souverenity and literature, which subjected him to unrelenting persecution. In 1927 and 1928, he lived in Berlin, Vienna, and Paris, before returning to Ukraine. Banned from most of his beloved literary organizations, forbidden from writing for several journals, and facing the terror and famine that swept Ukraine in 1932 and 1933, Mykola committed suicide. Khvylovy’s political, philosophical, and historical visions became known as Khvylovism, and his followers, as Khvylovists. One of those was his biographer and close friend Pavlo Petrenko, who had escaped Ukraine during the Second World War, and who wrote the current book under the pseudonym O. Han and published it, while residing at the Neu Ulm DP camp in Germany. Ill.: 0. 2.

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