{"product_id":"barka-vasyl-okean-niu-york-1959","title":"Vasyl Barka. Ocean: Lyric. New York, 1959","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e“Through the foam—like a wing—the evening; the dawn: a ship through the foam…”\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eVasyl Barka. Ocean = Wasyl Barka. The Ocean \/ artistic design by Ya. Hnyzdovsky.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eNew York: “Slovo,” 1959. — 240 pp. — Printed by All-Slavic Publishing House, 133 East 4th Street, New York 3, N. Y. Title page in parallel English. Price at the time of publication—$3.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher’s dust jacket in cream paper: on the front cover, a woodcut of a sea wave, printed in dark blue; the author’s name and title—in brown; below the title, the monogram “ЯГ”; on the spine, the author’s name and title—in black. The dust jacket paper is evenly yellowed, rubbed along the edges and corners; the top of the spine is frayed; along the spine edge of the back cover, there is soiling and a small red stain in the lower corner. The text block is firm and clean. On the title page, the signature is in blue ink. Condition: good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLifetime edition, the first part of “Ocean.” Yakiv Hnyzdovsky’s artistic design has independent artistic value.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINFORMATION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Ocean” is a major lyrical work that Barka wrote in America between 1949 and 1955: over two hundred poems, each with a precise date beneath the text, from “Zaspiw” to “Vidspiw.” Here, the ocean is not a landscape but a boundary between a lost land and a foreign country: “Separation by Ship,” “The Solitude of the Sea,” “The Worldless Shore,” “Solitude,” “The Ruins of the Sea.” Before the Ukrainian edition, the first part of the book was translated into German by Elizabeth Kotzmayer—under the title “Trojanden-Roman,” with the Ukrainian text alongside (Kessler Verlag, Mannheim, 1956); reviews by German critics of that translation are reprinted at the end of this copy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eVasyl Barka, born Ocheret (1908–2003)—poet, prose writer, essayist, and translator. He debuted in Kharkiv with the collections “Shliakhy” (1930) and “Tsehy” (1932), was severely wounded at the front, survived German forced labor and internment camps in Augsburg, and lived in the United States from 1950 onward. He is the author of “The Yellow Prince,” the first novel about the Holodomor. He continued working on “Ocean” throughout his life: the second, two-volume edition was published in 1979, and the third volume in Kyiv in 1992.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe book was published at the expense of a fund, and on the verso of the title page is printed a list of those who contributed to its publication: among them the sculptor Serhiy Lytvynenko, literary scholar Luka Lutsev, and Ivan Korovytskyi. As noted on the last page, orders for the book were sent simply to the author’s home address—23 West 82nd Street, New York 24. The dust jacket, title pages, and decorations were designed by Yakiv Hnyzdovsky, whose collaboration with Ukrainian émigré publishing houses shaped the appearance of an entire generation of Ukrainian books across the ocean.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"archivevam","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64689161896307,"sku":"SKU-00869","price":6500.0,"currency_code":"UAH","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0943\/7885\/2723\/files\/pr-15556324360563.jpg?v=1793985755","url":"https:\/\/archivevam.com\/en\/products\/barka-vasyl-okean-niu-york-1959","provider":"ARCHIVEVAM РІДКІСНІ КНИГИ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}