“YAKAS MOZAIKA STROKATA I VIRSHI RIZNYKH ROZMIRIV”: THE ASHES OF THE EMPIRES BY YURI KLEN Cover Image

“ЯКАСЬ МОЗАЇКА СТРОКАТА І ВІРШІ РІЗНИХ РОЗМІРІВ”: ПОПІЛ ІМПЕРІЙ ЮРІЯ КЛЕНА
“YAKAS MOZAIKA STROKATA I VIRSHI RIZNYKH ROZMIRIV”: THE ASHES OF THE EMPIRES BY YURI KLEN

Author(s): Roman Mnich
Subject(s): Recent History (1900 till today), Ukrainian Literature, Theory of Literature
Published by: Uniwersytet Adama Mickiewicza
Keywords: Yuri Klen; Übermensch; The Ashes of the Empires;

Summary/Abstract: The article focuses on the creative writing of Yuri Klen (1891–1947), the neoclassic and one of the most prominent Ukrainian poets in the twentieth century. The author interprets the main motifs of the poem Popil Imperij (The Ashes of the Empires) in the context of Klen’s creative and academic writing. Special attention is paid to the analysis of a fragment known as Lucifer’s Temptation, the key image of which is the image of the Übermensch.

  • Issue Year: 6/2018
  • Issue No: 6
  • Page Range: 235-242
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: Ukrainian