Ivan Levitsky

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Ivan Levitsky

Ukrainian author

Also known as: Ivan Nečuj-Levycʾkyj, Ivan Nechúi-Levýtsky, Ivan Nechuy-Levitsky

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Pseudonym of:: Ivan Nechuy-levitsky

Also spelled:: Nechúi-levýtsky, or Nečuj-levycʾkyj

Born:: Nov. 25 [Nov. 13, old style], 1838, Steblev, Kiev province, Ukraine, Russian Empire

Died:: April 15 [April 2, O.S.], 1918, Kiev (aged 79)

Also Known As:: Ivan Nechúi-Levýtsky; Ivan Nečuj-Levycʾkyj; Ivan Nechuy-Levitsky

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Ivan Levitsky (born Nov. 25 [Nov. 13, old style], 1838, Steblev, Kiev province, Ukraine, Russian Empire—died April 15 [April 2, O.S.], 1918, Kiev) was a Ukrainian Realist novelist of the postserfdom reform period. He drew upon his background as a seminary student and, later, a provincial teacher, to depict the educated and lower classes in some of the earliest social novels in Ukrainian literature. His works include Prichepa (1869; “The Intruder”), Khmari (1874; “Clouds”), Kaydasheva semya (1879; “The Kaydashev Family”), and Burlachka (1881; “A Factory Girl”). Use of objective narrative and details of folklore strengthen the realistic effect of his works.

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