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The All-Encompassing Eye of Ukraine
Ivan Nechui-Levyts'kyi's Realist Prose
Maxim Tarnawsky (Author)
9781442650084
Hardback, published 16 April 2015
384 pages
23.5 x 16.1 x 2.9 cm, 0.72 kg
‘A thorough and much needed re-examination of the author and his work.’ ‘Tarnawsky’s book shines a welcome light on an important writer and period that research in the west has neglected.’ "The All-Encompassing Eye of Ukraine is evidence of the revelatory force of careful and unprejudiced reading, and a demonstration of the benefits to be gained from taking one’s canonical authors seriously."
One of the most important realist novelists of nineteenth-century Ukraine, Ivan Nechui-Levyts'kyi was caricatured and then forgotten by a generation of literary modernists who rejected his aesthetic and ideological views. In The All-Encompassing Eye of Ukraine, Maxim Tarnawsky presents a thorough and much-needed reexamination of Nechui-Levyts'kyi and his work. A solitary, modest man whose chief interest was in promoting and defending a Ukrainian identity threatened by the cultural policies of the Russian Empire, Levyts'kyi’s writing described Ukraine, its people, its culture, and the forces threatening it. A satirist who attacked modernism and cosmopolitanism, he wrote in a style marked by what Tarnawsky calls non-purposeful narration – slow-paced humour built on rhetorical finesse rather than on plot or character development. A vital reconsideration of a significant Ukrainian novelist written by the foremost expert on his work, The All-Encompassing Eye of Ukraine deepens and expands our understanding of Ukraine’s nineteenth-century literature.
Introduction 1. The Unknown Nechui 2. Describing Ukraine 3. Defending Ukraine 4. Realism, Rhetoric, and Repetition 5. Nechui’s Characters: Women and Joy 6. Nechui’s Historical Writing Conclusion