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Wasyl Barka (pseud. of Vasyl Ocheret, born 16 July 1908 in the village of Solonytsia in the Lubensky Uyezd of the Poltava Governorate (now Lubny Raion, Ukraine), died 11 April 2003 in Liberty, New York) was an American-residing Ukrainian poet, writer, literary critic, and translator.

Biography

Vasyl Barka's family had a Cossack origin. In 1927, Barka graduated from Lubny Pedagogical College, and then worked as a teacher in a mining village in Donbass. There he did not get along with the local authorities, and went to the North Caucasus. In 1928, he entered the philology faculty of Krasnodar Pedagogical Institute and worked at the Krasnodar Art Museum. Supported by Pavlo Tychyna, Barka's work first appeared in print in 1929. The publication of his first book of poems in 1930 provoked much ideological criticism, including accusations of "bourgeois nationalism" and "religious carry-overs". Barka transferred from Krasnodar Institute to the postgraduate school of the Moscow Pedagogical Institute, wrote his thesis on the realistic and the fantastic in the Divine Comedy by Dante, and presented the thesis in 1940. He has lectured at the Philology faculty at Rostov University.

In 1941, after the Great Patriotic War broke out, Barka volunteered, and in 1942 he was badly injured and caught in the occupation. After he recovered, he worked as a proofreader at a newspaper. In 1943, he was sent to Germany.[1] After that, he lived in Germany, where he was active in the MUR literary association. In 1947, he moved to France, then, in 1950 to the United States. There he worked at Radio Liberty. Sometimes he was starving, and had to take any job - he used to work as fireman, window cleaner etc.^{[citation needed]}

Works

Vasyl Barka was close to the New York group of Ukrainian poets. Barka's orphic works require intuitive rather than logical comprehension. His poetry developed and grew in stature, from the early lyrical collections to the monumental 4,000-strophe epic novel in verse "Svidok dlia sontsia shestykrylykh" (The Witness for the Sun of Seraphims, 1981), which addressed the theme of reconciliation between 'man and the Creator.' His first novel, "Rai" (Paradise, 1953), deals with the Soviet 'paradise.' His second novel, "Zhovtyi kniaz'" (The Yellow Prince, 1962, 1968), about the Ukrainian Famine-Genocide of 1932–33, was translated into French (Paris 1981) and served as the basis for Oles Yanchuk's 1993 Ukrainian feature film Holod-33 (Famine-33).

Partial list of works:

• Pathways (1930, poetry)
• Workshops (1932, poetry)
• Apostles (1946, poetry)
• God's Earth (1947, poetry)
• Paradise (1953, novel)
• The lark's springs (1956, essays)
• The rose novel (1957, poetry)
• Psalm of the dove field (1958, poetry)
• Ocean (1959, poetry)
• True Poet (1961, essay on the works of Taras Shevchenko)
• Yellow Prince (1963, novel about the Holodomor in Ukraine, published in 1991)
• Sky rider (1965, religious and philosophical essays)
• Lіryst (1968, poetry)
• Creativity (1968, essays)
• Judgment Step (1992, poem)
• Caucasus (1993, a dramatic poem)

Recognition

The novel Yellow Prince was twice nominated for the Nobel Prize.[2] The novel is published in Ukraine in the School Library series, and is studied in schools. The novel was the basis for the 1991 film, Golod-33 (eng. Famine-33), directed by Oles Yanchuk.[3] In the Ukrainian National Opera, in 2008, the director Andriy Zholdak staged the play Lenin Love, Stalin Love based on Yellow Prince. In 1981, Vasyl Barka was awarded the Antonovych prize.

References

External links

• The works of Vasyl Barka in the digital library ukrclassic.com.ua(in Ukrainian)
• Vasyl Barka

На других языках

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[de] Wassyl Barka

Wassyl Barka (ukrainisch Василь Барка, Geburtsname Василь Костянтинович Очерет .mw-parser-output .Latn{font-family:"Akzidenz Grotesk","Arial","Avant Garde Gothic","Calibri","Futura","Geneva","Gill Sans","Helvetica","Lucida Grande","Lucida Sans Unicode","Lucida Grande","Stone Sans","Tahoma","Trebuchet","Univers","Verdana"}Wassyl Kostjantynowytsch Otscheret, weiteres Pyeudomyn Іван Вершина Iwan Werschyna; * 16. Juli 1908 in Solonyzja, Gouvernement Poltawa, Russisches Kaiserreich; † 11. April 2003 in Liberty, New York, Vereinigte Staaten) war ein ukrainischer Dichter der Moderne, Prosa-Schriftsteller, Essayist, Literaturkritiker und Übersetzer.

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- [en] Vasyl Barka

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[fr] Vassyl Barka

Vassyl Barka (pseud. de Vassyl Otcheret), né le 16 juillet 1908 au village de Solonytsia, oblast de Poltava, mort le 11 avril 2003 à Liberty, poète et romancier ukrainien.

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[ru] Василь Барка

Васи́лий Ба́рка (настоящее имя Василий Константинович Очерет, укр. Василь Костянтинович Очерет; 16 июля 1908, село Солоница Лубенского района Полтавской области — 11 апреля 2003, Глен Спей, штат Нью-Йорк) — украинский поэт, прозаик, переводчик, религиозный мыслитель.

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