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What to Read M ychajlo Osadchyi. BIL’MO. (C ataract). A vtobiohrafichnyj narys. Paris. Baltim ore. У. Sy- monenko Ukrainian Publishers Smoloskyp. 1971. 208 pages. The last decade has b ro u g h t us quite a few o u tstand ing w orks from th e “underground” or “sam vydav” press in U kraine. A m ong th em is O sadchyj’s Cata ract. Philosophical depth and b itin g satire, successful lit e rary devices and touching epi sodes p u t th is book on th e level er to th is celebration. M rs. T ait is th e Food E d ito r of th e new s p aper in charge of th e Food Guide section. A lthough she w as unable to attend, Mr. E . Eddow s rep resen ted h er and p h o to g rap h ed th e b eautifully decorated fes tive table. The trad itio n al 12 dishes w ere p repared by M es dam es: I. Y urchak, C. P erfecky, V. A ndrejczyk, Z. K unasz, S. Hollaway, and L. B uhaj. M rs. L. D ychdala baked a m agnificent “kolach.” The president of th e branch M rs. Irene Y urchak and th e vice-pres. M rs. C hristine P erfecky prepared a resum e of U krainian C hristm as trad itio n s and dishes for M rs. T ait in th e E nglish language, as well as several U krainian recipes. M rs. E laine T a it’s article about th e U krainian E piphany Eve fe a st appeared in th e Sunday Jan. 21 edition of th e Philadel phia Inquirer, w hich reaches close to th ree m illion read ers in th e D elaw are V alley. I t w as th e firs t page fe a tu re sto ry of th e Food Guide. M rs. T ait described th e E piphany E ve trad itio n s, th e tw elve dishes, and gave detailed recipies fo r v arenyky and holub- ci. Two p ictu res enhanced th e story. The response to th is a r ticle w as trem endous. M any A m ericans called no t only th e Inquirer, b u t also m em bers of B ranch 98 req u estin g in fo rm a tion about U krainian cookery, culture, arts, and crafts. M rs. T ait prom ised th a t in th e fu tu re o th er sim ilar articles would ap p ear in th e Inquirer. of S olzhenitsyn’s “One D ay.” It is a book w hich should d efin ite ly be tran slate d into m any lan guages. T he th irty -tw o year old a u th o r instead of a Ph.D. diplom a received a th ree y ear sentence in Soviet prisons and cam ps (al though his d issertatio n on U krainian lite ra tu re w as already accepted). Cataract com prises of p oetry and prose sections. The la tte r is m ore th a n an au to biographical n arratio n of an e ru dite prisoner. It is m ore th a n a sim ple description of one m an ’s prison sentence, of a “zek’s” life in M ordovia, USSR. It is a m ost talented p resen tatio n of cinem a tograp hic and su rrealistic epi sodes full of philosophical obser vations. In his cam p recollection Osad- chyj shows us glim pses of well know n U krainian intellectuals (such as Zalyvacha, Shevchuk, H evrych, S oroka), as well as those of o th er nationalities (th e L atvian poet Skuenienks, th e R ussians Sinyavsky and D an iel). W e are exposed to th e events of everyday cam p life w hich also reflects th e p riso n ers’ cravings fo r o th er needs besides th e ev eryday bread: we see unique and in terestin g descriptions of th e large in tern atio n al intellectual cam p com m unity and th e ir lite r ary com m em orations •— UN style. They organized (secret ly) p rogram s dedicated to Ivan F ranko, or R ustavelli or Rai- nis . . . The p oetry section contains O sadchyj‘s th irty -o n e longer and sh o rter poem s, all w ritten d uring his im prisonm ent. T here are also a few poem s w hich are assum ed to be his tran slatio n s of p o etry from o th er languages. Cataract m ay well serve as an eye opener fo r those, who still believe in th e existence of ju stice in Soviet co u rts; b u t O sadchyj's first-h a n d experience in 1966-67 will definitely prove th e opposite to th em . He m asterfu lly rem oves th e c a ta rac t so all could see th e -tru th . ' ' L. M. L. Support "Our Life' AN AM ERICAN SOYUZANKA SPEARS O u r g ro u p w a s a sk e d th e q u e stio n — “W h at do y o u e x p e c t fr o m th e S o y u z U k r a in o k .” W e ca n o n ly a n s w e r th a t w e lo o k t o S o y u z U k r a i- n o k fo r g u id a n c e a n d to b e a n o n - p a r tisa n g ro u p . . . fo r parities o n ly d iv id e u s, n o t u n it e us. W e a lso w a n t to c o n tr ib u te to S o y u z U k r a in o k as U k r a in ia n -A m e r ic a n w o m e n . W e, o f a d if fe r e n t g e n e r a tio n s t ill h a v e th e sa m e c o m m o n b on d , th a t is, our U k r a in ia n h e r it a g e an d c u ltu r e . . . w e r e a c h o u t in th is r e s p e c t o n le v e l g ro u n d a n d w e k e e p in to u ch . O u r o n ly b a sic p r o b le m w it h our U k r a in ia n w o m e n is th e fa c t th a t m a n y in s is t th a t w e sh o u ld a lw a y s u se o u r U k r a in ia n , b u t y o u m u s t r e a liz e th a t a t t im e s y o u m a y h a v e as m u c h d if fic u lty u n d e r sta n d in g u s as w e do y o u . T h e lite r a tu r e fr o m H e a d q u a r te r s an d o th e r C h a p ters is u s u a l l y w r itt e n in U k r a in ia n . T h is p r e se n ts a p r o b le m in o u r C h a p ter, if th e P r e s id e n t c a n n o t r e a d U k r a in ia n . O fte n th e e v e n t h a s p a ssed , b y th e tim e th e c o r r e sp o n d e n c e is tr a n s la te d a t ou r m o n t h ly m e e tin g . W ith in o u r r a n c h 58 a t p r e se n t w e a r e g r o w in g in m e m b e r sh ip , a n d w e fin d a m o n g s t o u r s e lv e s g r e a t e o m p a - ta b ilit y an d in te r e st. W e a lso e n jo y m e e t in g a t e a c h o th e r s’ h o m e s m o n th ly . O ur a c t iv it ie s in c lu d e s o c ia l p a r tie s, b a k e sa le s, O ld W orld M a rk et, t h e U k r a in ia n E th n ic F e s t i v a l, a n d p r o m o tin g U k r a in ia n c u l tu r e w it h in o u r c o m m u n itie s: su ch a s p y sa n k a d e m o n s tr a tio n s a n d sp e e c h e s p e r ta in in g t o ou r cu sto m s. W e h a v e a ll b e e n w o r k in g d ilig e n t ly to w a r d s th e U k r a in ia n V illa g e , w h ic h w i l l b e a S e n io r C itiz e n s H o m e, an d to d a te w e h a v e d o n a te d $2,833.00 to w a rd s th is w o r t h y ca u se w h ic h is so d e s p e r a t e ly n e e d e d in ou r U k r a in ia n c o m m u n ity . M a n y o f ou r m e m b e r s are a lso a c t i v e in o th e r clu b s, c h a r itie s, fo u n d a tio n w o r k an d c h u r c h grou p s. F o r s o m e m e m b e r s, th e o n ly lin k in ou r w a y o f l i f e to d a y w it h U k r a in ia n c u ltu r e is b e lo n g in g to a b r a n ch o f S o y u z U k r a in o k . O ur w o r ld to d a y h a s e x p a n d e d a g r e a t d e a l co m p a r e d to th a t o f o u r m o th e r s. W e m a y r e f e r to W o m e n ’s L ib o f to d a y , h o w e v e r , I . c a n n o t h e lp b u t th in k th a t th e w o m e n ’s lib d o o r o p e n e d w h e n (C o n tin u e d o n b a ck c o v e r p a g e ) НАШЕ; ЖИТТЯ — БЕРЕЗЕНЬ, 1973 29
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