Ukraine 22 - Ukrainian Writers Respond to War

In this anthology, many of Ukraine''s most prominent writers and intellectuals ponder the role of culture and cultural diplomacy in a time of war. They revisit their relations with the world, including with their closest geographical neighbors. They delve deeply into the structure of Russian colonial systems and its empirical paradigms, explaining how they have worked in the past and continue to work in the present. Much of the focus of these writings is on Europe, its guiding principles, its relationship with Russia, its relationship with Ukraine. These texts reflect the horrors of war that Ukraine is experiencing, and its writers attempting to comprehend how this is possible in 21st century Europe.<>

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I am extremely grateful this collection found its way to me. I read it compulsively over two sittings while my decidedly war-free calendar called me back to it with its seductions (delusions) of normality. The extraordinary writers in this volume articulate the taste, the terror, and the dialect of war; they command their powers of description to face a shameless empire intent on annihilating them. You won't find patriotic sentimentality here, but an exquisite unity of life and word against a barbaric invasion that is already shaping Europe's future. Ukraine 22 is a remarkable and significant collection which ought to be read widely Ellena Savage

Product details

• Authors: Mark Andryczyk
• Assisted by: Mark Andryczyk (Editor), Andryczyk Mark (Editor)
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 01.06.2023
• EAN: 9781802062915
• ISBN: 978-1-80206-291-5
• No. of pages: 400
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 35 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews; Fiction > Poetry, drama; Non-fiction book; Ukraine, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Journalism, HISTORY / Modern / 21st Century, Military history: post WW2 conflicts, HISTORY / Europe / Eastern, 21st Century, Anthologies: general, Anthologies (non-poetry), Military history: post-WW2 conflicts, c 2020 to c 2029