Ivan Nechuy-Levytsky

Ivan Nechuy-Levytsky
Іван Семенович Нечуй-Левицький
Born 25 (13) November 1838
Stebliv, Kiev Governorate, Russian Empire
Died 2 April 1918
Kiev, Ukrainian People's Republic
Pen name Nechuy
Occupation Writer
Period 1865–1914
Literary movement Literary realism

Ivan Semyonovich Nechuy-Levytsky (born Levytsky) (25 November [O.S. 13 November] 1838 – 2 April 1918) was a well-known Ukrainian writer.[1][2]

Biography

Ivan Nechuy-Levytsky was born on 25 November [O.S. 13 November] 1838 to a family of a peasant priest in Stebliv (Cherkasy region of central Ukraine). In 1847 he entered the Boguslav religious school. Upon graduation from the Kiev Theological Academy (1865) he taught Russian language, history, and geography in the Poltava Theological Seminary (1865–1866) and, later, in different gymnasiums in Kalisz, Siedlce (1867–1872) and Kyshyniv (1873–1874).[3]

He started writing in 1865. His works appeared in Kievan and Galician publishing houses and periodicals, such as Rada, Pravda, Dilo and Zoria magazines. His bibliography includes social and popular history novels, dramas, comedies and fairy tales. Among his most famous works is a novel Kaidash's Family (1878) and a comedy At Kozhumyaky (1875) which was later remade into a play Chasing Two Hares by Mykhailo Starytsky. In 1961 it was adapated as a popular comedy movie of the same name.

Ivan Nechuy-Levytsky died of hunger in 2 April 1918 in one of almshouses of Kiev.[3] He was buried at the Baikove Cemetery.[4]

Novels by Ivan Levytsky. Volume 1. Kaidash's Family. — Kiev, 1887

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)
  • Ivanchenko, R. Ivan Nechui-Levyts’kyi: Narys zhyttia i tvorchosti (Kyiv 1980)
  • Tarnawsky Maxim, The all-encompassing eye of Ukraine: Ivan Nechui-Levyts'kyi’s realist prose, Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2015, 384 pp., ISBN 9781442650084 (in English)

References

  1. ↑ Ivan Levitsky at Encyclopædia Britannica, pseudonym and surname are confused
  2. ↑ Family tree at Rodovid (in Ukrainian)
  3. 1 2 Biography at the International Experiment Portal (in Ukrainian)
  4. ↑ Tomb at Wikimedia


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