Bohdan Ihor Antonych

Bohdan Ihor - Antonych (Ukrainian Богдан - Ігор Антонич, scientific transliteration Bohdan Ihor - Antonyč; * October 5, 1909; † July 6, 1937 in Lviv ) was a Ukrainian poet and prose writer.

Officially banned, the writer in Ukraine until the mid- 1960s reached a broader awareness. His philosophical- religious, enriched with comedy, folk and pagan symbols poetry had great influence on contemporary Ukrainian literature. In his work of Omar Khayyam influences, Walt Whitman and Gabriele D' Annunzio reveal.

Biography

Antonych was born into the family of a clergyman in Nowica in the district of Gorlice ( Lesser Poland Voivodeship ). The father's name was actually Wasyl feces. The family changed its name before the birth of Bohdan - Ihors. This was first educated at home by a private tutor and then attended high school in Sanok. Even as a child he wrote poetry. He started in middle school, but wrote in Polish, because this was the language of instruction and he lived in a Polish oriented environment.

1928 Antonych enrolled at the University of Lviv. The following stage of life was a major influence on the development of his creative personality. Because even though the university was a Polish, the majority of their students recruited from the Ukrainian bourgeoisie. This encouraged the young poet is to write in Ukrainian and learn the Ukrainian literary language. The first thus created poems read the author in the circle of Ukrainian students. He popped one into the literary world of Lviv, the capital of Galicia. Material for his confrontation with the Ukrainian language, he not only found in dictionaries, but also in the verses of poets of the Ukrainian Soviet Republic. In 1931 his first published poem in the journal Wohni ( Вогні ). More publications in periodicals and anthologies followed. Despite his immense creative productivity and the difficult process of appropriation of the literary language Antonych still found ample time on other fields to be active in journalism. In lectures, he campaigned for such foreign Ukrainian literature and translated them. He wrote reviews under the pseudonym Sojl ( Зоїл ), but it remained away from politics. He has published satirical lyrics and parodies in which he put an acrid humor to the day. He also tried his hand at epic and dramatic forms.

He left behind the unfinished novella " Three Mandolin " ( Три мандоліни ) and a fragment of a story entitled " На другому березі ". Antonych wrote the libretto for the opera " Довбуш » Anton Rudnickis. Should also be mentioned his work as editor of the magazine " Дажбог " and together with Wolodymir Gawryliuk the magazine " Карби ". In addition he painted, played violin and composed. These branches of the art, especially painting, influenced his poetry.

Antonych died at the age of twenty-eighth of appendicitis, which spread to the pleura.

Works

• Autobiography ( Автобіографія )
• The Green Gospel ( Зелена Євангелія ). Lviv, 1938
• Book of the Lion ( Книга Лева ). Lviv, 1936;
• На другому березі (unfinished)
• Welcome to life [ Привітання життя ]. Lviv, 1931;
• Song about the indestructibility of matter ( Пісня про незнищенність матерії )
• Rotation ( Ротації ). Lviv, 1938.
• Three rings ( Три перстені ). Lviv, 1934;
• Translation of Rainer Maria Rilke in the Ukrainian language