Summary Ivashkevich I


Yaroslav Ivashkevich (Polish: Jaroslaw Iwaszkiewicz, also known under the pseudonym Eleuter, February 20, 1894 – March 2, 1980) is a Polish writer, poet, playwright, translator, laureate of the International Lenin Prize “For Strengthening Peace Among Nations” (1970).

Yaroslav Ivashkevich was born in the village of Kalnik near Kiev, in the Russian Empire. He studied at the Elisavetgrad and Kiev gymnasiums, then at the Faculty of Law of Kiev University. Simultaneously, he studied at the Kiev Conservatory, was fond of musicology. Yaraslav Ivashkevich’s literary debut took place only in 1915, when his poem “Lilit” was published in the Kiev weekly magazine “Perot”. In October 1918 Ivashkevich moved to Warsaw, where he became an active participant in the avant-garde literary groups “Under the Piccador” and later “Scamander” (Polish Skamander). During this period Ivashkevich was very fond of the works of Nietzsche,

Rimbaud, Wilde. With Wilde Ivashkevich, the worship of “pure beauty” was akin. For Ivashkevich’s creativity of that time, motives of cruel love and loneliness are characteristic. In the 1930s, Ivashkevich’s creativity reached maturity. He publishes several new poetry collections, tries his hand at drama. In the poetry of Ivashkevich, then the tone of anxiety and anxiety predominates, Ivashkevich strives to create in his works an atmosphere of “mystified everyday life.” In these works the style of the writer took shape, the defining features of which were sensual, plastic, lyrical and chambered narrative. Ivashkevich strives to create in his works an atmosphere of “mystified everyday life.” In these works the style of the writer took shape, the defining features of which were sensual, plastic, lyrical and chambered narrative. Ivashkevich strives to create in his works an atmosphere of “mystified everyday life.” In these works the style of the writer took shape, the defining features of which were sensual, plastic, lyrical and chambered narrative.


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Summary Ivashkevich I