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Availability:In StockContributor:Volodymyr Rafeyenko, Mark Andryczyk (Translator)Series:Harvard Library of Ukrainian LiteraturePublish date:2022-04-19Pages:204
Language:EnglishPublisher:Harvard Ukrainian Research InstituteISBN-13:9780674271708ISBN-10:067427170XUPC:9780674271708Book Category:Literary Collections, Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Russian & SovietSize:7.90 x 5.00 x 0.50 inchesWeight:0.5512Product ID:SCHY18PRMS
A mondegreen is something that is heard improperly by someone who then clings to that misinterpretation as fact. Fittingly, Volodymyr Rafeyenko's novel Mondegreen: Songs about Death and Love explores the ways that memory and language construct our identity, and how we hold on to it no matter what. The novel tells the story of Haba Habinsky, a refugee from Ukraine's Donbas region, who has escaped to the capital city of Kyiv at the onset of the Ukrainian-Russian war. His physical dislocation--and his subsequent willful adoption of the Ukrainian language--place the protagonist in a state of disorientation during which he is forced to challenge his convictions. 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. Taking on crucial topics stirred by Russian aggression that began in 2014, the novel stands out for the innovative and probing manner in which it dissects them, while providing a fresh Donbas perspective on Ukrainian identity.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Harvard Ukrainian Research InstituteISBN-13:9780674271708ISBN-10:067427170XUPC:9780674271708Book Category:Literary Collections, Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Russian & SovietSize:7.90 x 5.00 x 0.50 inchesWeight:0.5512Product ID:SCHY18PRMS
Rafeyenko, Volodymyr: - Volodymyr Rafeyenko is an award-winning Ukrainian writer, poet, translator, and literary and film critic. Having graduated from the Donetsk University with a degree in Russian philology and culture studies, he wrote and published entirely in Russian. Following the outbreak of the Russian aggression in Ukraine's east, Rafeyenko left Donetsk and moved to a town near Kyiv, where he wrote Mondegreen: Songs about Death and Love, his first novel in Ukrainian, for which he 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 (1999) and the Visegrad Eastern Partnership Literary Award for the novel Long Hours (2017).
Publisher: Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute

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