Ukrainian Literature: Historical Experience and Perspectives

Scientific journal

No. 5 (2025)
Articles

Ukrainian Dissidents in Polish Studies: The Poetry of Vasyl Stus and Taras Melnychuk in Translations by Jacek Podsiadło and Kazimierz Burnat

https://doi.org/10.31652/3041-1084-2025-5-02
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  • Iryna Alimivna Zelenenka
Iryna Alimivna Zelenenka
Candidate of Philological Sciences, Associate Professor of the Department of Ukrainian Literature, Vinnytsia State Pedagogical University named after Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky

Published 2025-01-01

Keywords

  • modernism,
  • existence,
  • poetry,
  • interpretation,
  • literary translation

How to Cite

Ukrainian Dissidents in Polish Studies: The Poetry of Vasyl Stus and Taras Melnychuk in Translations by Jacek Podsiadło and Kazimierz Burnat. (2025). Ukrainian Literature: Historical Experience and Perspectives, 5, 12-24. https://doi.org/10.31652/3041-1084-2025-5-02
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Abstract

The article explores the phenomenon of translating dissident poetry, focusing on poems by Vasyl Stus (Time of Creativity) and Taras Melnychuk (Prince of Dew). It provides an overview of the development of translations of poetry from the Ukrainian resistance movement, unique in world literature, and analyses the specific challenges of translation between closely related languages (in particular, from Ukrainian into Polish). The study illustrates trends in translating the poetic language of two poets and prisoners of conscience, Vasyl Stus and Taras Melnychuk, through an examination of syntactic, lexical, and stylistic structures. In the global context, the growing readership of foreign literature, especially poetry, reflects the increasing promotion of Ukrainian literature abroad. The article also addresses the distinctive features of the lyrical corpus of dissident works, with particular reference to translations into European languages, especially Polish.
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