And to the West, to the West Sob the Wagons from the Chaos and Death... (Ukrainian poets and Prague)
Abstract
The short article deals with the context in which two Ukrainian poets - Yuriy Darahan and Oleksa Stefanovych - worked in the interwar period in Prague. The text describes the historical background of the Ukrainian emigration who came to Czechoslovakia, the cultural atmosphere of Ukrainian emigration in the period.
It briefly characterizes the work of Ukrainian emigration writers who are often called "Prague poetic school". The attention is paid to key traumas experienced by this generation after the defeat of Ukrainian first republic, and especially to the ways they work with these traumas in their poetry.
Except of Yuriy Darahana and Oleksa Stefanovych, other authors of "Prague school" are mentioned here, e.g. Yevhen Malanyuk, Olena Teliha, Oksana Lyaturynska, Oleh Olzhycz and others.
The text creats a background for the texts about Yuriy Darahan and Oleksa Stefanovych.