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Yuriy Izdryk

Yuriy Romanovych Izdryk (Ukrainian: Юрій Романович Іздрик; born 16 August 1962) is a Ukrainian writer, poet and author of the conceptual magazine project Chetver, also known as Thursday.

Yuriy Izdryk
Native name
Юрій Романович Іздрик
BornYuriy Romanovych Izdryk
(1962-08-16) 16 August 1962 (age 61)
Kalush, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
OccupationWriter, poet
LanguageUkrainian
NationalityUkrainian
Alma materLviv Polytechnic National University
Literary movementPostmodernism

He wrote the novels The Island of Krk (1994), Wozzeck & Woczkurgia (1996, 1997), Double Leon (2000) and AM™ (2004). He also wrote the poetry collection Stanislav and his 11 Liberators (1996), several collections of essays, and a number of short stories, articles on cultural studies and literary criticisms. Izdryk is also one of the founders of the Stanislav phenomenon, a group of postmodernist post-Soviet writers.[1] He lives and works in his birthplace, Kalush.

Izdryk is also a visual artist and music composer, and has written stagings for theatrical plays.

Biography edit

Early life and education edit

Izdryk's father, Roman Andriiovych, spent his youth in the village of Gremyachinsk of the Perm region. He and five of his brothers and sisters were deported there with their mother while their father, Father Andrii Izdryk, was imprisoned in Stalinist concentration camps.[2][better source needed]

Izdryk excelled in school, especially in mathematics, and played in a school music ensemble. Around the same time, his interests in literature began, reading Vsevolod Nestayko, Stepan Rudansky, Aleksandr Kuprin, and the Great Soviet Encyclopedia. At age 14, he wrote his first poem in Russian. He was greatly inspired by the four-volume texts of Hemingway,[citation needed] which became "the first textbook of a true Ukrainian literary language", and made it clear that "all things, all emotions, all experiences, all, in general, can be translated into their native language".[This quote needs a citation]

Izdryk graduated from music school in cello and piano, and also played guitar and mandolin. After graduation, he entered the Lviv Polytechnic Institute's Faculty of Mechanics and Technology, where he studied art history, played in rock bands, and participated in productions of an amateur student theatre.[citation needed]

Early career edit

After graduating in 1984, Izdryk began working as an engineer at a machinery plant in Ivano-Frankivsk. In 1986, he transferred to the Kalush Research Institute of the Khalkaria and worked there until 1990.[citation needed]

At the end of the 1980s, he participated in numerous official and unofficial artistic events and exhibitions and collaborated with the Komsomol oblast newspaper.[citation needed]

In 1989, he began work on the magazine Chetver. The first two editions were self-published. In 1990, at one of the artistic events (during the preparation of the biennial "Impreza" that took place in Ivano-Frankivsk), Izdryk met with Yurii Andrukhovych, which became a decisive factor in his life. He asked Andrukhovych to edit Chetver with him, and for several years the two artists worked on the magazine together.[citation needed]

Artistic establishment edit

 
Yurko Izdryk on the Book Arsenal. Kyiv, 2016

Izdryk's first works appeared in the self-published editions of the magazines Chetver and Breaking (Poland). These included the serial The Last War and the poetic cycle Ten poems about the Motherland. The style of these early works led some critics to believe that Izdryk was a pseudonym of Andrukhovych, as certain stories, characters and phrases are similar – which later came to distinguish the creators of the Stanislav phenomenon.[citation needed] Over time, Izdryk declared himself an extraordinary artist, and plagiarism was dismissed.[citation needed]

Visual art briefly interrupted Izdryk's writing. He began to actively engage in painting, and participated in exhibitions between 1990 and 1994.[citation needed] He also engaged the artistic design of books and magazines and conducted personal exhibitions. His drawings were popular and he was able to make a living from them.[citation needed] For a time he was fascinated by theatre and wrote staging for The Cricket on the Hearth and The Catcher in the Rye, which were used by the Chernihiv regional youth theatre in the early 1990s.[citation needed]

In 1994, Izdryk returned to literary endeavours. His short story "Island Krk" [uk] appeared in the mainstream magazine Modernity [uk] in 1994, and was received positively by critics.[citation needed] A Polish translation later appeared in the magazine Literatura na Świecie, and the story was featured in the 1998 collection The Island of Krk and Other Stories.[citation needed]

Izdryk published his first novel, Wozzeck, in 1998.[citation needed] He followed this with Double Leon in 2000 and AM™ in 2004. He continued to edit Chetver until its publication was suspended in 2008.[citation needed] In 2009, Izdryk published the collections of essays and sketches Flash 2GB and TAKE, for which he received a 2010 Book of the Year award from BBC-Ukraine.[citation needed] In 2011, Izdryk published Underwor(l)d, a collection of poetry and essays. In 2013, he published Izdryk. Yu a collection of poetry originally published in his blog, "Dead Diary".[citation needed]

Izdryk's focus returned to music.[when?] He had written music cycles on poems by Andriyovych and Anna Kirpan.[citation needed] He collaborated on joint musical projects with poet and musician Hryhorii Semenchuk.[citation needed]

In 2014, while attending the International Scholarship for Poets, Meridian Czernowitz in Chernivtsi, Izdryk began collaborating on the Summa media project,[3] which involves the constant communication of the authors with the audience. The end product of Summa was to be a book of the same name.[citation needed][needs update]

In June 2018, he recorded a videoconference in support of the Ukrainian director in prison, Oleh Sentsov.[4]

Stanislav phenomenon edit

Main article: Stanislav phenomenon

Izdryk is considered one of the primary representatives of the Stanislav phenomenon. According to Ukrainian literary scholars,[who?] the writers of the Stanislav phenomenon are the most representative branch of Ukrainian postmodern literature. In this form of postmodernism, authors try to answer the question of whether members of this group are really postmodernists, or if they are some type of modern avant-garde.[1]

Works edit

Prose edit

  • "The Island of the Krk" (1993)
  • "Wozzeck & Woczkurgia" (1997)
  • "Double Leon" (2000)
  • "Another format: Yurko Izdryk" (Ivano-Frankivsk: Lilia-NW, 2003)
  • "AM™" (Lviv: Calvaria, 2004)
  • "3:1" is "Krk Island", "Wozzeck" and "Double Leon" (Kharkiv: "Family Leisure Club", 2009)
  • "TAKE" (Kharkiv: "Family Leisure Club", 2009).
  • "Flash-2GB" (Grani-T, 2009).
  • "Flash. Defragmentation "(" Such ", 2009)
  • "Nomination. All Prose of Izdryka "(Lviv:" The Publishing House of the Old Lion ", 2016)
  • "Summa" (with Evgeniya Nesterovich; Chernivtsi: Meridian Czernowitz, 2016)

Poetry edit

  • "Yu" (Lviv: "The Publishing House of the Old Lion", 2013)
  • "After prose" (Chernivtsi: Meridian Czernowitz, 2013)
  • "AB OUT" (Lviv: "Old Lion Publishing House", 2014)
  • "Calendar of Love" (Lviv: "Old Lion Publishing House", 2015)
  • "Papiorsi" (Chernivtsi: Meridian Czernowitz, 2017)
  • "Sloth and tender" (K .: A-ba-ba-ha-la-ma-ha, 2018)
  • "Smokes" [Dual-language edition: Ukrainian-English] (Sandpoint, Idaho: Lost Horse Press, 2019)

Essay edit

  • "Flash stick" (2007)
  • "Flash stick" – 2gb (K.: Grani-T, 2009)

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ a b "Yuriy Izdryk and the Stanislav Phenomenon - Postmodernists or "postmodernized" avant-garde? | M. Mościszko". ResearchGate. Retrieved 15 July 2019.
  2. ^ "Entry Display Web Page".
  3. ^ "Summa" (in Ukrainian).
  4. ^ Free Sentsov (4 June 2018), Sentsov 39, retrieved 15 July 2019

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