Na pershi huli. Zhart na odnu diiu

Avgsburg (Augsburg): Nashe Zhyttia, 1946. Softcover. First edition thus; 8 x 6; pp. 22; beige wraps printed in black; spine reinforced with a blue paper tape; small nicks and cuts along edges; chip to upper corner of front wrap; faint, penciled-in notations to several pages; overall good to very good condition. Title in English and Ukrainian.Stepan Vasylchenko (pseud. for Stepan Panasenko) (1879 - 1932) was a Ukrainian poet, author and educator. He made his literary debut with a Russian-language story - The Failure of Resistance (1903) - while teaching at a small, one-teacher school in the village of Potoky. Although he was criticized by some for being a typical "peasant" writer, most of his pre-Revolutionary works dealt with provincial subjects and characters intimate and close to his heart. He was arrested for participating in labor strikes, but released in 1908 after getting very ill with typhus. He was strictly forbidden to teach for the rest of his life. He wrote numerous short stories, memoirs, and poems, even while serving in the First World War. An integral part of his legacy are his plays, including the current one-act, satirical one, published posthumously at a DP (displaced persons) camp in Germany, that for a certain degree contributed to the development of Ukrainian drama.