TY  - GEN
T1  - Between reason and irrationality : the prose of Valerijan Pidmohylʹnyj
A1  - Tarnawsky, Maxim
LA  - English
PP  - Toronto ; Buffalo
PB  - University of Toronto Press
YR  - 1994
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocn622436941
AB  - Valerijan Pidmohyl'nyj (1901-1937) is one of the foremost Ukrainian writers of the twentieth century. His best work, Misto (The City), is arguably the finest novel in Ukrainian. Yet Pidmohyl'nyj is largely unknown even in Ukraine, where until recently his works were banned. Tarnawsky's aim is to bring Pidmohyl'nyj out of obscurity into the critical appreciation he deserves. This study takes a chronological approach to Pidmohyl'nyj's works, tracing his development as a writer along thematic, technical, and stylistic paths. Inspired by Western writers, especially the French realists, Pidmohyl'nyj evolves as a European intellectual in a Soviet Ukrainian setting. The texts are frequently cited in both the original Ukrainian and an English translation.
AB  - From the earliest stories of the seventeen-year-old writer, whose focus was on the psychology of sexuality, to the last known work, which recounts a hopeless quest for an unattainable goal, Pidmohyl'nyj's works are linked by a variety of philosophical and aesthetic threads. Chief among these is his interest in the fundamental duality of human beings, their disharmony as both physical creatures driven by natural needs and desires, and rational beings. This conflict between instinct and intellect, irrationality and reason, is the central focus of all Pidmohyl'nyj's writings and Tarnawsky's primary subject.
OP  - 222
CN  - PG3948.P49 Z89 1994
SN  - 9781442671331
SN  - 1442671335
SN  - 1282011898
SN  - 9781282011892
SN  - 0802029930
SN  - 9780802029935
KW  - Pidmohylʹnyĭ, Valer'i͡an, : 1901-1937 : Criticism and interpretation.
KW  - Pidmohylʹnyĭ, Valerii͡an, : 1901-1941 : Critique et interprétation.
KW  - Pidmohylʹnyĭ, Valer'i͡an, : 1901-1937
KW  - Pidmohylʹnyj, Valerʺjan P.
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM : General.
KW  - Russian fiction
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc.
ER  -