Oleh S. Ilnytzkyj is Professor of Modern Languages and Cultural Studies at the University of Alberta.
Ilnytzkyj’s great achievement is to demonstrate that Semenko’s
followers were in fact part of the mainstream attempt in the first
quarter of the century to transcend the rural basis of Ukrainian
identity and create a new, vibrant and more ’modern’ sense of
self.
*Slavic and East European Review [UK]*
[Ukrainian Futurism] will be a landmark in Ukrainian literary
history since it offers, for the first time, a critical and
historical analysis of this neglected subject. It will also receive
high marks for meticulous research and balanced, well-argued
conclusions. The best way of acquainting the Ukrainian reader with
it would be to translate and publish [it] in Ukrainian, for it is
very doubtful that a critical work of comparable acumen will be
published any time soon… To read Ilnytzkyj’s book is to savor the
many strands of the rich Ukrainian cultural tapestry in the
critical post-World War I epoch.
*Slavic Review*
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