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In the summer of 1911, Lesya Ukrainka was living in Georgia, four hundred miles from anywhere she had ever called home, ill with the tuberculosis that would kill her two years later. In ten or twelve days she wrote a play set in a forest in Volhynia that she had not seen in years and would not see again. It became the best-loved work in Ukrainian literature.
The Forest Song opens on a lake in early spring, among beings who have lived there far longer than any village: Lisovyk, the old lord of the wood; Vodyanyk in his lake; Rusalka, who kills by laughter. Mavka wakes from her winter sleep to a sound she has never heard - a young man playing a pipe. She goes to find him.
What follows is not the fairy tale that setup promises. Lukash is an ordinary young man with a mother, a debt, and a field that needs cutting. Mavka comes to live in his house and is put to work. A widow from the next village arrives, capable and impatient and entirely reasonable, and the forest gives ground to the farm. The play's argument is not nature against civilisation. It is about what a person owes to the thing they have woken in someone else - and about what survives being betrayed.
Ukrainka called it a drama-feieriia, a drama-fairy play: flying spirits, transformations, a house on fire, and inside all that machinery a marriage, a mother-in-law, and a death.
This annotated edition is designed for readers coming to Ukrainian literature for the first time as well as for those who already know it. The Ukrainian names of the forest beings are kept rather than flattened into nymphs and goblins, and explained where they appear.
It includes:
- a new verse translation, in blank verse for the dialogue and rhyme where Ukrainka sings
- a translator's introduction on the play, its author, and the choices behind this English text
- footnotes throughout, kept light enough to read past
- a substantial back commentary, scene by scene, on symbolism, folklore, and the passages where the Ukrainian will not go quietly into English
- a glossary of the forest beings, with the Ukrainian terms
- a pronunciation guide
Translated from the Ukrainian by Serhii Sakal, whose previous translation is Taras Shevchenko's The Artist.
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About the Authors
Lesya Ukrainka (1871-1913) was the pen name of Larysa Kosach-Kvitka, and one of the founding figures of modern Ukrainian literature. She was born in Zviahel, in Volhynia, into a family at the centre of Ukrainian intellectual life: her mother was the writer and ethnographer Olena Pchilka, her uncle the political thinker Mykhailo Drahomanov. Tuberculosis of the bone, contracted in childhood, kept her out of school and ended an intended career as a pianist; she educated herself instead, reading in some ten languages and translating Heine. Ukrainian-language publishing was banned in the Russian Empire for most of her working life, and her first book had to be printed abroad and smuggled in. Her mature work is almost entirely verse drama - Cassandra, The Stone Host, In the Catacombs - and the best loved of it is The Forest Song (Лісова пісня), written in 1911, a drama-fairy play built from the folklore of the Volhynian forests, whose heroine Mavka has become one of the most recognisable figures in Ukrainian culture. She died at Surami, in Georgia, aged forty-two.
Serhii Sakal was born in Ukraine in 1987 and lives in the United States. Like every Ukrainian schoolchild he grew up reading his country's writers, and returning to them as an adult, from a distance, gave rise to the idea of bringing them to English-speaking readers. He has also translated Taras Shevchenko's The Artist.
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