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Book SynopsisThis volume presents, for the first time in English, fourteen essays by Yuri Andrukhovych, making a well-known Ukrainian voice accessible to the English-speaking world.
Trade Review"We should feel grateful to the translators for making Andrukhovych’s incisive essays available, for the first time and in one place, to English-speaking audiences." -- Alexander Burak *
Slavic Review *
"Andrukhovych is one of Ukraine’s most prominent intellectuals, perhaps the very symbol of the rise of Ukrainian postmodernism in the early 1990s." -- Alessandro Achilli *
New Zealand Slavonic Journal *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments A Biographical Preface about the Author Michael M. Naydan En Route Endeavours Mark Andryczyk Author’s Introduction Yuri Andrukhovych Autobiographical Essay: The Central-Eastern Revision (expanded version 2005) Culturological and Political Essays: Erz-Herz-Perz (1994) The City-Ship (1994) Carpathologia Comosphilica (1996) Time and Place, or My Final Territory (1999) A Little Bit of Urban Studies (1999) What Language Are You From: A Ukrainian Writer among the Temptations of Temporariness (2002) Meeting Place Germaschka (2002) Four Million for Our Agents (2003) A Land of Dreams (2004) The Star Absinthe: Notes on a Bitter Anniversary (2011) Love and Hatred in Kyiv (January 2014) Seven Hundred Fierce Days, or the Role of a Contrabass in the Revolution (March 2014) Afterword Yuri Andrukhovych Notes Index
