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The first comprehensive English-language collection of one of the most important voices in contemporary Ukrainian literature, a collection of poems about the region''s history of violence as seen thro...
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The first comprehensive English-language collection of one of the most important voices in contemporary Ukrainian literature, a collection of poems about the region''s history of violence as seen through geography, myth, and city life. Yuri Andrukhovych is one of the most compelling and influential contemporary Ukrainian writers, the author of a body of work that ranges from the novel to the essay to poetry and that stands out in every genre for being thoughtful, playful, free-spirited, and astonishingly new. His career took off in the waning years of the Soviet Union, when underground artists and writers and the rumbles of rock music coming from abroad all helped to bring the walls of the sclerotic Communist empire tumbling down. Set Change draws on the poetry Andrukhovych wrote in the eighties and nineties, before he turned his attention to prose. The collection shows him beginning on a quest to represent and do justice to Ukraine''s long history of violence. He explores the overlapping and shifting borders of Eastern Europe while also venturing into realms of fantasy and myth. Again and again, he returns to the idea of the city as a space of carnivalesque disguise and discovery. Drawing on the rich resources of Ukrainian literature, from the amplitude of the baroque to the austerely powerful configurations of the lost modernist generation, Andrukhovych''s poems are ironic and elegiac, witty and allusive, lyrical, experimental, and political. As translated into English by John Hennessy and Ostap Kin, they offer readers a powerfully transformative vision of the place of poetry in a fractured world.
Detaljer
Forlag
NYRB Poets
ISBN
9781681378848
Sprog
Engelsk
Sider
136
Udgivelsesdato
26-11-2024
Format
Paperback
Varenr.
3297013
EAN nr.
9781681378848
Varegruppe
Engelsk non fiction div.
Højde/Dybde (mm)
113
Bredde (mm)
176
Længde (mm)
15
Vægt (g)
156