Samchuk, Ulas

[SIGNED] Volyn’: roman u trokh chastynakh. Ch. 1: Kudy teche ta richka = Volyn: Where does this River flow

Item #1591

324 pages. 22 cm. Original publisher’s green cloth with gilt title on the upper cover. Text in Ukrainian.

The binding is clean with light shelf wear and minor rubbing to the extremities. The interior is very clean. Signed and inscribed by the author on the title page in Ukrainian.

Signed copy of the first part of Ulas Samchuk’s monumental novel Volyn, a major work of twentieth-century Ukrainian literature. The volume forms the opening section of Samchuk’s epic trilogy depicting life in Volhynia in the early twentieth century. Written between 1929 and 1935, the novel portrays the formative years of a Ukrainian youth during the turbulent period surrounding the First World War and the struggle for Ukrainian national self-determination. Through its expansive narrative and autobiographical elements, the work presents a broad social panorama of the region and explores themes of identity, nationhood, and cultural awakening.

Ulas Samchuk (1905–1987) was a Ukrainian novelist, journalist, and publicist, widely regarded as one of the leading literary voices of the Ukrainian diaspora. Born in the village of Derman’ in Volhynia, he became known as a chronicler of the Ukrainian national experience in the twentieth century. His works—including the novels Volyn’, Mariia (1934), and Hory hovoriat’ (1934)—address themes of national struggle, the Holodomor, and the upheavals of war and exile. After the Second World War Samchuk settled in the West, later emigrating to Canada, where he remained an active participant in Ukrainian émigré cultural life and a member of the Ukrainian writers’ association “Slovo.” The trilogy Volyn brought the author international recognition and has often been regarded as one of the most significant narrative chronicles of Ukrainian life in the first half of the twentieth century.

Price: $300.00