Roman Czajkowsky of the Ukrainian Weekly reports on the presentation of the English translation of Shevchenko’s complete Kobzar. We owe a tremendous debt to Fedynsky, a Voice of America journalist, for making Shevchenko's "Kobzar" available in one volume."
This is the first English-language edition of all of Shevchenko's Kobzar poems. "The unfolding drama in Ukraine makes the appearance of Peter Fedynsky's translation of Shevchenko's "Kobzar" all the more significant.
Fedynsky defies Shevchenko’s rule of vocalic quality and the overall idealistic endeavor to recreate the source text’s vocal harmony, while concurrently remaining faithful to its semantic consistency." Lada Kolomiyets, The Ukrainian Quarterly "Contrary to the majority of preceding translators, to the entire school of literary, or artistic, translation which is much respected and highly developed in today’s Ukrainian translation tradition, Mr. The poet is honored with more than 1250 monuments in Ukraine, and at least 125 worldwide, including such capitals as Washington, Ottawa, Buenos Aires, Warsaw, Moscow and Tashkent. A multitude of translations of Shevchenko’s verse into Slavic, Germanic and Romance languages, as well as Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, and many others attest to his impact on world culture as well. That figure does not include Kobzars released before and after both in Ukraine and abroad. There is no reliable count of how many editions of the book have been published, but an official estimate made in 1976 put the figure in Ukraine at 110 during the Soviet period alone. The first editions had been censored by the Russian czar, but the book still made an enduring impact on Ukrainian culture. Masterfully fulfilled by Peter Fedynsky, Voice of America journalist and expert on Ukrainian studies, this first ever English translation of the complete Kobzar brings out Ukraine's rich cultural heritage.Īs a foundational text, The Kobzar has played an important role in galvanizing the Ukrainian identity and in the development of Ukraine’s written language and Ukrainian literature.
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