Signals of Being, Or Verbum Caro Factum Est A Play in Three Acts

About the author

Volodymyr Rafeyenko is an award-winning Ukrainian writer, poet, translator, and literary and film critic. Although he initially wrote and published in Russian, his novel Mondegreen: Songs about Death and Love was his first written in Ukrainian. It was nominated for the Taras Shevchenko National Prize, Ukraine’s highest award in arts and culture. Among other recognitions, he is the winner of the Volodymyr Korolenko Prize for the novel Brief Farewell Book and the Visegrad Eastern Partnership Literary Award for the novel The Length of Days.Mark Andryczyk teaches Ukrainian literature and is Associate Research Scholar in the Ukrainian Studies Program at the Harriman Institute at Columbia University. He is the author of The Intellectual as Hero in 1990s Ukrainian Fiction and has published translations of numerous Ukrainian poets and writers.

Product details

• Authors: Volodymyr Rafeyenko
• Assisted by: Andryczyk Mark (Translation)
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 11.11.2025
• Subject: Fiction > Poetry, drama
• EAN: 9780674302662
• ISBN: 978-0-674-30266-2
• Pages: 156
• Series: Harvard Library of Ukrainian Literature
• Subjects: Anthologies: general, Anthologies (non-poetry), Plays, Playscripts, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / European / Eastern, Kyiv, DRAMA / European / Eastern, DRAMA / Type / Historical, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Subjects & Themes / War, Modern and contemporary plays / drama, civilian population during war, war drama, Volodymyr Rafeyenko, Ukrainian drama, Ukrainian literature, Russian occupation, Russian Aggression