Vasyl' Barka interview Item Info
Vasyl' Barka interview
Regarding a review of Barka's book "Bilyi Svit" and Ivan Bahrianyi
00:00:00Regarding Ukrainian poetry and modernism
00:01:46What is the critical reaction to your works currently in Ukraine?
00:04:32Mykola Francuzenko's reaction to the critical reaction to Barka's work
00:05:58Barka on his reception among the literary elite
00:07:58Mykola Francuzenko on the importance of the publication of Barka's works in Ukraine and their connection to the Ukrainian people
00:10:03Barka's reaction to Francuzenko's observation
00:11:17Reminiscences of Barka about his youth and the loss of idiomatic characteristics of the Ukrainian language
00:13:02What were the reasons behind the recent visits to you of people from Ukraine?
00:15:03Mykola Francuzenko's view on the reaction to Barka in Ukraine
00:24:29What is your personal reaction to the fact that Ukraine has (re)discovered you? Response: lack of Ukrainian epic poem.
00:26:49Other Ukrainian editions of Barka's works
00:32:23Translations of Barka into English
00:34:20What is your current work and interests?
00:42:38What is your opinion of the works of Ievhen Sverstiuk?
00:44:51Tangential response involving Barka's reaction to Ukrainian emigre modernist poets (especially the New York Group) and Charles Péguy.
00:45:03Direct response to the question regarding Sverstiuk
00:51:49What young contemporary Ukrainian poets do you believe have potential?
00:53:30Can you share your first reactions upon learning that Ukraine had declared independence? The impact of "Zhovtyi Kniaz'" on the independence referendum.
00:59:12What are your thoughts about the then poets who have now become politicians?
01:04:32Barka's opinion regarding Ivan Drach and Dmytro Pavlychko
01:07:32Barka's relation to the concept of a "Rada" (council) vs "Sovietism"
01:12:46Regarding poets as politicians
01:16:20Mykola Francuzenko on Mykola Vinhranovs'kyi and his novel "Severyn Nalyvaiko"
01:20:55Francuzenko regarding Mykola Bazhan and his past glorification of the Stalin era
01:22:59Barka regarding the Vinhranvos'kyi novel and Severyn Nalyvaiko
01:24:31Barka regarding Bazhan and the role of artists and poets glorifying or opposing political power
01:26:03Regarding the open letter by Bohdan Boichuk against Vitalii Korotych
01:32:28Regarding Barka's and Francuzenko's diets
01:33:29- Creator:
- Francuzenko, Mykola
- Date Created:
- 1994-07-20
- Description:
- Informal iterview of Vasyl' Barka regarding his work and its impact on Ukraine, contemporary Ukrainian writers (including the "New York School", the relation between poets and politics and political power, and other topics.
- Subjects:
- Sversti︠u︡k, I︠E︡vhen Drach, Ivan Pavlychko, Dmytro
- Source collection:
- Mykola Francuzenko papers
- Source Identifier:
- UHEC_MA_2014.8.3CA003
- Type:
- sound
- Format:
- audio/mp3
- Languages:
- Ukrainian
- Form:
- Interviews
- Interviewer:
- Francuzenko, Mykola Kryvolap, Iurii
- Interviewee:
- Barka, Vasyl'
- Preferred Citation:
- "Vasyl' Barka interview", Mykola Francuzenko papers (UHEC_MA_2014.8.3CA003), Ukrainian History and Education Center Archives
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