The City - Valerian Pidmohylnyi

The City

Buch | Hardcover
300 Seiten
2025
Harvard University Press (Verlag)
978-0-674-29111-9 (ISBN)
42,30 inkl. MwSt
Valerian Pidmohylnyi’s The City was a landmark event in the history of Ukrainian literature. Written by a master craftsman, the novel tells the story of Stepan, a young man from the provinces who moves to the capital of Ukraine, Kyiv, and achieves success as a writer through a succession of romantic encounters with women.
Valerian Pidmohylnyi’s The City was a landmark event in the history of Ukrainian literature. Written by a master craftsman in full control of the texture, rhythm, and tone of the text, the novel tells the story of Stepan, a young man from the provinces who moves to the capital of Ukraine, Kyiv, and achieves success as a writer through a succession of romantic encounters with women.

At its core, the novel is a philosophical search for harmony in a world where our intellectual side expects rational order, whereas the instinctive natural world follows its own principles. The resulting alienation and disorientation reflect the basic principles of existential philosophy, in which Pidmohylnyi is close to his European counterparts of the day.

Valerian Pidmohylnyi (1901–1937) was one of the most prominent Ukrainian modernist writers, translators, and literary scholars of the early twentieth century. Three years after his arrest by the Soviet authorities in 1934, Pidmohylnyi was executed in Sandarmokh (Karelian Republic) with over 1,000 other prominent Ukrainian writers, poets, intellectuals, and activists in what later was dubbed the Executed Renaissance. Maxim Tarnawsky is Professor of Ukrainian Language and Literature at the University of Toronto. He is the author of The All-Encompassing Eye of Ukraine: Ivan Nechui-Levyts´kyi’s Realist Prose and Between Reason and Irrationality: The Prose of Valerijan Pidmoyl´nyi, and the translator and the editor of Ukrainian Literature: A Journal of Translations. Maxim Tarnawsky is Professor of Ukrainian Language and Literature at the University of Toronto. He is the author of The All-Encompassing Eye of Ukraine: Ivan Nechui-Levyts´kyi’s Realist Prose and Between Reason and Irrationality: The Prose of Valerijan Pidmoyl´nyi, and the translator and the editor of Ukrainian Literature: A Journal of Translations.

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Harvard Library of Ukrainian Literature
Einführung Maxim Tarnawsky
Übersetzer Maxim Tarnawsky
Verlagsort Cambridge, Mass
Sprache englisch
Maße 127 x 203 mm
Themenwelt Literatur Anthologien
Literatur Fantasy / Science Fiction Fantasy
Literatur Romane / Erzählungen
ISBN-10 0-674-29111-5 / 0674291115
ISBN-13 978-0-674-29111-9 / 9780674291119
Zustand Neuware
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