A seminar with lecturer Bohdan Tokarsky. Focusing on Ukrainian dissidents. Work from 1960s and 1970s during the Thaw and Brezhnev era. Existential poetry and work exploring selfhood.
Reading included original translations, reading in English and Ukrainian. This focused on two poets, Vasyl Stus and Vasyl Holoborodko. In particular a concept of, in Ukrainian, самособоюнаповнення (samosoboiunapovnennia). A form of self-reflection, looking at oneself, or fluid self, exploring relationship with oneself as process. This is also evident in works by Rainer Maria Rilke.
Further reading included a text by Stus’ son, Dmytro Stus. This included and made reference to how and where Stus appears on film. There is footage of Dmytro Stus and his father’s reburial in 1989. This is by Slavko Chernilevsky in a film Vasyl Stus: The Road of Thorns. I am searching for this material online.
Week 4: Lecture Notes
Further reading: Vasyl Stus: Life in Creativity by Dmytro Stus.