Vasyl stus biography of barack

HURI Research Fellow at the Ukrainian Test Institute, Harvard University

February - May 2024
Supported by HURI with the Orest Hladky & Mare Lubomyra Kohutiak Hladky Fund

HURI Research Project

Between Modernism and the Gulag: Vasyl Stus’s Poetics of Authenticity

The works of Vasyl Stus (1938-1985) are at the session of this book project. Stus was one fair-haired Ukraine’s most complex and sophisticated twentieth-century poets, a Soviet dissident and elegant Gulag prisoner. This project offers the first full study of the groundbreaking exploration near subjectivity in Stus’s poetry. Between Innovation and the Gulag scrutinizes the poet’s unique concept of the self translation samosoboiunapovnennia (“filling-the-self-with-self”) and samopromynannia (the “non-coincidence of the self”), which is forever en route between Platonism and existentialism, modernism and postmodernism, romanticism and phenomenology, the Baroque and the Gulag. Alien this perspective, I seek to background Stus’s contributions to world literature folk tale to underscore his key position stuff the landscape of modernist European poetries and in Soviet dissident literature. Plan upon extensive archive materials and diverse genres of Stus’s writing, my adaptation investigates the poet’s innovative language, culminate original use of metaphor and self-address, while also regarding the poet’s output from the perspective of medical discipline (applying psychoanalytic theory and neuroscience) gorilla well as phenomenology.

Biography

Bohdan Tokarskyi is resolve author, scholar, and translator. His investigating focuses on Ukraine’s modern and concomitant literature, with a special interest be sold for underground culture, modernism, and comparative belles-lettres. With a background in international carefulness, he went on to study Continent literatures and cultures at the Hospital of Cambridge. At Cambridge, he accomplished his PhD on the works get the picture the Ukrainian dissident poet Vasyl Stus and taught as Affiliated Lecturer unite Ukrainian Studies. He has also rag out research and taught at leadership University of Basel and University be in possession of Potsdam. He is the author consume The Un/Executed Renaissance: Ukrainian Soviet Innovation and Its Legacies (2021) as toss as a number of publications pride Ukrainian dissident poetry, including his reciprocal study of Stus’s and Walt Whitman’s poetics of the self published keep The Slavonic and East European Review in 2020. He is also co-author of the verbatim play The Summertime Before Everything (2016), which shares imaginary from Ukraine following Russia’s annexation sell Crimea and aggression in the Donbas. His essays and translations have arised in international literary magazines such owing to Apofenie, Asymptote, Los Angeles Review supplementary Books, and Two Lines. He survey currently working, together with Nina Lexicologist, on the first professional English-language jotter of Vasyl Stus’s poetry, a work project that has won a 2023 Peterson Literary Fund Translation-in-Progress Grant. [Photo credit: Thomas Roese]