Foreword

• Published in: Harvard Ukrainian studies 2011-01, Vol.32/33 (1-4), p.19
• Main Authors: Koropeckyj, Roman, Koznarsky, Taras, Tarnawsky, Maxim
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Dissertations & theses; Essays; Ideology; Literary history; Literature; Russian literature; Slavic literature; Studies; Translators; Ukrainian
• ISSN: 0363-5570; 2328-5400

[...]as both drew generously on the same Ukrainian populist traditions, the inevitable upshot, as Grabowicz is fond of saying, was the emergence in the emigration of a nationalist realist aesthetic (...) that mirrored (and not all that crookedly) the Soviet socialist realist one (...), a relationship that he would go on to examine some twenty years later in his seminal study U poshukakh velykoï literatury (In Search of a Great Literature).1 Grabowicz's initial response to this ideological stalemate, which was irresolvable because it was imaginary, was to take a kind of phenomenological third way-he was, after all, the translator of Roman Ingarden's The Literary Work of Art. The publishing house that emerged around the journal under Grabowicz's leadership produces works by Ukrainian and Western scholars and intellectuals, including seminal works on Ukrainian literature and history in exemplary academic editions, of which the most important are the two-volume complete works of Volodymyr Svidzins'kyi, two volumes of Panteleimon Kulish's correspondence (as part of a planned thirty-five volume edition of his works), and the first volume of a projected four-volume Khronika kolektyvizatsiï ta Holodomoru v Ukraïni (The Chronicle of Collectivization and the Great Famine in Ukraine).