Zaboronene literaturoznavstvo v radjans'kij Ukrajini: dvi statti Vasylja Stusa pro ukrajins'ku poeziju

The article compares two literary essays by the Ukrainian poet V. Stus. Both were written at the beginning of the Seventies, a time of hard repressions in Soviet cultural life, and consist in refined discussions of two key figures of modern Ukrainian poetry. I am trying to contend that both examples of a practice of literary criticism are utterly aliento official Soviet scholarship, but in a completely different manner. A Phenomenon of Our Time presents an account of the life and work of P. Tychyna through the prism of populism and historicism. On the contrary, A Vanished Blossoming deals with V. Svidzins’ky’s poetry in a highly personal, impressionistic style, which reveals as much on Stus’s own art as on the object of his writing.