Author: Koriak, V. (Volodymyr)
Title: Selianskyi Betkhoven. Tvorchist V. Stefanyka (Peasant Beethoven. The Art of V. Stefanyk)
Description: 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 .

Keywords: Biography, Criticism


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