Ukrainian 80s generation

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The Ukrainian 80s generation  ( Ukrainian Вісімдесятники / Wisimdesjatnyky ) represents a generation of authors who emerged in Ukraine in the second half of the 1980s .

According to Vladimir Ješkilev, the generation of the "80s" was the first in the history of post-war Ukrainian literature to create an opposition to the traditionalist discourse, not in the form of resistance by individuals, but as a phenomenon within a new literary generation. Discursively, this phenomenon can be divided into a post-modern and a neo-modern part. The social upheavals of the early 1990s had an impact on the work of the “80s”, which manifested itself in the so-called “carnival reflection” among the representatives of the generation (Bu-ba-bu, LuGoSad, “Dogs of Saint Jurij”) .

The “eighties” were mainly oriented towards European culture, especially the literature of the post-Austrian cultural area of ​​the 20th century ( Georg Trakl , Franz Kafka , Milan Kundera ). Vladimir Ješkilev says that the neo-modernist component of the group was mostly organic to the current literary situation in Ukraine , and less related to the post-modern area. Within the no-modernist part of the movement there is a special kind of compensation for the losses that Ukrainian literature suffered due to its isolation and marginalization during the Soviet period .

The appearance of an anthology of the same name, compiled by Igor Rymaruk and edited in Edmonton in 1990, contributed to the formation of an independent canon of writers belonging to the generation of the Ukrainian "80s" . Works from the generation of the "80s" were also published in the anthology "From three worlds" (" З трьох світів ").

Characteristics of the phenomenon of the "80s"

According to Vladimir Ješkilev, from the series of special features of the "Visimdesyatnyky" phenomenon, the following should be mentioned:

  1. the acquisition of a dominant meaning of the formal component of a work;
  2. the transition from narrative to intertextual symbolism and the search for the meaning of intertextuality as nostalgia for the interior;
  3. the lack of entitlement to the creation of a constitutive text;
  4. the desire for charismatization through "recognition in the West" and the resulting complexes and frustrations;
  5. a conceptual urban individualism;
  6. the tendency towards artificial forms of creation.

The main representatives of the Ukrainian 80s

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Mala ukraïns'ka enciklopedija actual'noï literatury, Pleroma, 3, project Povernennja demiurhiv. Ivano-Frankivsk: Lileja-NV 1998, p. 39.

literature

  • Literaturoznavča enciklopedija, upor. Iurij Kovaliv. Kyïv: Vydavnyčyj centr "Akademija" 2007, p. 194. ( Ukrainian )
  • Mala ukraïns'ka enciklopedija actual'noï literatury, Pleroma, 3, project Povernennja demiurhiv. Ivano-Frankivsk : Lileja-NV 1998, pp. 39-40. ( Ukrainian )