Mondegreen - Songs About Death and Love

Mondegreen tells the story of a refugee from Ukraine's Donbas region who has escaped to Kyiv at the onset of the Ukrainian-Russian war. Written in beautiful, experimental style, the novel shows how people-and cities-are capable of radical transformation and how this, in turn, affects their interpersonal relations and cultural identification.

A propos de l'auteur

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.

Résumé

Mondegreen tells the story of a refugee from Ukraine’s Donbas region who has escaped to Kyiv at the onset of the Ukrainian-Russian war. Written in beautiful, experimental style, the novel shows how people—and cities—are capable of radical transformation and how this, in turn, affects their interpersonal relations and cultural identification.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Volodymyr Rafeyenko
• Collaboration: Mark Andryczyk (Traduction), Andryczyk Mark (Traduction)
• Edition: Harvard University Press
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 28.02.2022
• EAN: 9780674271708
• ISBN: 978-0-674-27170-8
• Pages: 204
• Thèmes: Harvard Library of Ukrainian Lierature; Harvard Library of Ukrainian Literature
• Catégories: Littérature > Littérature (récits); Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Fiction in translation, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, LITERARY CRITICISM / Russian & Soviet, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Russian & Soviet