Kotsyubinsky, Mikhaylo

Kotsyubinsky, Mikhaylo

▪ Ukrainian author
Kotsyubinsky also spelled  Kotsiubinsky  
born Sept. 5 [Sept. 17, New Style], 1864, Vinnitsa, Ukraine, Russian Empire
died April 12 [April 25], 1913, Chernigov, Ukraine

      novelist and short-story writer whose work was one of the highest achievements of Ukrainian modernism.

      Kotsyubinsky graduated from Shargorod Seminary in 1880. He did not begin to publish his writing until 10 years later, working in the interim as a teacher and statistician. Kotsyubinsky's philosophical and stylistic evolution from populist realism to impressionism was the result of western European influences and reflected his concern that Ukrainian writing be integrated into the European literary mainstream. His greatest novel, Fata morgana (1904–10), represented a new approach to the traditional theme of social conflict in a small village; subsequent work used the abortive 1905 revolution as the background for psychological investigations of men at the extremity of emotional experience.

      Kotsyubinsky had a great influence on later Ukrainian writers, and his works were translated into many languages. A number of his writings were also adapted for film.

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