For more than half a century, futurism was considered a "sad episode" in the work of several poets of "bad memory". Since such a diagnosis was given to the futurists by Maksym Rylsky himself, there were not many willing and able to discuss these issues again. The literary work of Oleh Ilnytskyi, a professor at Albersk University (Canada), is the first unbiased attempt not only to describe the conflict between the Ukrainian avant-garde and its public but also to present the comprehensive development of futurism from a historical, theoretical, and literary point of view, from its very origins (1914) to its disappearance (1931), or destruction. The book clarifies the position of Ukrainian futurism in the European context and evaluates its achievements from this perspective.
This book is about the artistic revolution carried out by M. Semenko, H. Shkurupii, O. Slisarenko, L. Kurbas, and others, and thanks to which, for the first time in several centuries, Ukrainian culture found itself at the forefront of European artistic life.
For literary critics, writers, and everyone interested in Ukrainian literature.
