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Nechui-Levytsky, Ivan
wrote stories, in which he combined the styles of the novel and the folkloric
narrative. His works about the lives of peasants and laborers established him
as a master of Ukrainian classical prose and as the creator of the Ukrainian
realist narrative. They include Mykola Dzheria (1878), Kaidasheva sim'ia
(Kaidash's Family, 1879), Burlachka (The Wandering Girl, 1880), Ne toi stav
([He] Changed, 1896), and the cycle of short stories Baba Paraska ta baba
Palazhka (Granny Paraska and Granny Palazhka, 1874–1908). The Ukrainian
clergy was described and satirized in Starosvits’ki batiushky ta matushky (Old-
World Priests and Their Wives, 1888), Pomizh vorohamy (In the Midst of
Enemies, 1893), and Afons’kyi proidysvit (The Vagabond from Athos, 1890). The Polish
aristocracy and the Polonized Ukrainian middle class are portrayed in Prychepa (The Hanger-
on, 1869) and Zhyvtsem pokhovani (Buried Alive, 1898). Nechui-Levytsky was the first to
BIBLIOGRAPHY
‘Zhyttiepys’ Ivana Levyts’koho (Nechuia), napysana nym samym,’ S’vit, no. 7 (1888)
Iefremov, Serhii. Nechui-Levyts’kyi (Kyiv 1924)
Mezhenko, Iurii. ‘Ivan Semenovych Nechui-Levyts’kyi,’ Tvory, 1 (Kyiv 1926)
Bilets’kyi, Oleksander. ‘Ivan Semenovych Levyts’kyi (Nechui),’ Tvory v chotyr’okh tomakh, 1
(Kyiv 1956)
Pokhodzilo, M. Ivan Nechui-Levyts’kyi (Kyiv 1960)
Krutikova, N. Tvorchist’ I.S. Nechuia-Levyts’koho (Kyiv 1961)
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12 Kyiv Literary-Artistic Society
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14 Literary criticism
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18 Nikovsky, Andrii
19 Nyva (1885)
20 Ohonovsky, Omelian
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