Mike Johansen. Collection of works in one book (ePub)

Mike Johansen is a Ukrainian poet, prose writer, and translator of the era of the "Shooted Revival". He was close to Vasyl Ellan-Blakytny, Mykola Khvylov, Volodymyr Sosyura and other Kharkiv writers. Together with them, he became the founder of the Union of Proletarian Writers "Hart" (1923). One of the founders of the VAPLITE literary association. His translations include the works of Friedrich Schiller, William Shakespeare, Edgar Allan Poe, Rudyard Kipling, Herbert Wells, Valentin Kataev, and others.
At the beginning of his creative career, the young poet was characterized by the motif of dreamy "islands of clouds", which Oleksandr Biletskyi called "late romanticism". That stormy day quickly "remagnetized" Johansen. Full of hopes for national and social renewal, the poet publishes the collection "D'hori" (1921), in one of the chapters of which - "Skoro forte" - he recreated the days of revolution and civil war with poetic means in high heroic tones.
Turning to folklore sources, Johansen reinterprets them in the light of Renaissance ideas.
The poetry collection "Yasen" (1929), which appeared after the books "Revolution" (1923) and "Dorobok" (1924), revealed a new quality of Johansen's creative searches: from the spontaneous revolutionary nature of a young Ukrainian intellectual in the early period of his work, the writer evolves in the direction of " pure romance.
Johansen's prose can be attributed to the avant-garde, in which literary canons and traditions are broken.
Content:
Novel
. The journey of the scientist Dr. Leonardo and his future lover, the beautiful Alceste, to Slobozhansk Switzerland
Tales
. Under sail on an oak tree
. Kos Chagyl on Amba
. Adventures of McLeyston, Gary Rupert and others
Story
. Humorous stories
. Salted hares
Poetry
. From "Cloud of ruins" and "Skoro forte"
. From "Stepping Circle"
Works for children
. Dog Jan
. The Wonder Cat
. How ants ate their fill of sugar
. Uncle Musiy and the hare
. Toad
. Water-loving beetle and cockroaches
. Wolves and camels
. Crabs
. Northern bird
. Caspian wolf
. Illusion
. Castor oil
. Dog and crows
. Catfish
. Peregrine falcon
. Written off back
. Tricky ducks
. How a perch caught itself
. Old boar
. Who tore the owl?
. Dog Jack, or the Dog that climbed a tree
. How the eagle brought the mink to the hunter

How the story is built. Analysis of prose samples