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Ostap Tarnavsky. The Literary Lviv, 1939-1944: Memoirs.

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"Well-known Ukrainian writer Ostap Tarnavsky speaks in his memoirs of the literary and artistic life of the multi-national Lviv during the Soviet and Nazi occupation. Working as a journalist, he had a chance of communicating with U.Samchuk, I.Bahryany, T.Osmachka, A.Lyubchenko; he presents bright portraits of Yu.Kosach, B.Nyzhankivsky, V.Tkachuk, T.Myhal, and other Ukrainian writers and artists. The book's pages reveal to the reader the epoch that was cruel, stormy, and full of extraordinary events."

In Ukrainian.
Type of the edition: hard cover, dust cover
Format: 144x270 mm
Number of pages: 136

Publisher: Piramida
Catalogue number: ISBN 9789664412923
Year: 2013

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Zenon Tarnavsky. Doroha na Vysoky Zamok. (The Road to the High Castle)


Zenon Tarnavsky.. along with his inseparable friend, writer Bohdan Nyzhankivsky – created the fascinating myth about the Lviv of the 1930's and 1940's. The publication is based on Tarnavsky's book "The Road to the High Castle" and his works on the over-arching themes of Lviv, the theater, and the liberation struggle. The annex contains the writer's first publications.
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Mykhaylo Yatskiv. Chorni kryla. (Black Wings)


..He managed to synthesize and redefine the in-depth folk styles, achievements of the domestic literature, and the latest Western European trends. The word rhythms and the depths of meanings of the three small prose collections represented here present the Lviv charismatic, whose texts do not age..
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Bohdan Nyzhankivsky. Vulytsya. (The Street)


The Lviv street in the 1930's and 1940's – hooligans, thieves, lovers, gangsters, and underground figures – this is the habitat of Bohdan Nizhankivsky's urban prose with the specific tongue of the city scum. At the same time, his works fascinate with the nostalgic sentiment..
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Stepan Levynsky. Vid Vezuvia do piskiv Sakhary. Z yaponskoho domu. Skhid i Zakhid. (From Vesuvius to Sahara Sands. From the Japanese Home. East and West)


Writer and traveler Stepan Levynsky was known in Galicia as the author of talented travel essays about travels to the Middle and Far East. Levynsky's books, especially "East and West", are valuable contributions to the Ukrainian travel literature of the early twentieth century – interesting and distinctive publications permeated with lyricism and philosophy..
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Letilo 40 sorok... Literary Anecdotes. (40 Magpies Flew)


It is the first time when a publication presents a complete collection of literary anecdotes about famous Ukrainian writers, artists, politicians, art and socio-political events of the 1920-30s. They are organically supplemented with cartoons and caricatures from Lviv humorous and satirical magazines of 1921-1939..
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Lviv... Lvivyanky... Lyubov... (Lviv... Lviv Women... Love...)


The new anthology has a strong gender bias: all of its authors are women. Having various characters and attachments, styles and preferences, aspirations and achievements, experiences and professions. But all of them have been budding on the family tree of the City That Is Loved...
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Knyha Leva: Lviv yak tekst. Lviv Prose Underground of the 1970-80ies. (The Lion's Book: Lviv as Text)


The anthology proposed to the readers encourages understanding of Lviv as text and presents prose and essays of the second half of 20th – beginning of the 21st centuries by such original authors as Sodomora, Bichuya, Andrukhovych, Neborak et al., and fully represents for the first time Lviv prose underground of the 1970-80-ies.
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Leonid Plyusch, Yuriy Shevelyov. Lystuvannya: 1979-1995. (Correspondence: 1979-1995)


Plyusch and Shevelyov are very different – in age and experience, cultural background and way of thinking. Behind their body of letters are not only brilliant ideas or interesting discussions, not only a slice of the day or a dialogue of different environments, but also a school of thinking, lessons in polemics and the art of argumentation.
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Yaroslav Faizulin. Istorija.UA: postati, fakty, versiji. (History.UA: figures, facts, versions)


This is a collection of essays on iconic figures and important events of the XX century. All together they create a fascinating kaleidoscope of this seemingly closest to us, but at the same time the least known time, which is still hidden under a layer of Soviet myths.
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Slavenka Drakulic. Niby mene nema(ye). (As If I Am Not There)


This is a terrific novel about massive cases of violence against women during the war in Bosnia, based on actual testimonies of victims, true stories, and painful traumatic memories of the women with whom Slavenka Drakulic talked.
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Where do individuals come from, who at a difficult moment are able to unite an entire nation? What determines the heroes' fates – their personal choice or life circumstances? Winston Churchill, at age 24, was confident that he would reach absolute peaks in politics. However, it took him 40 years to make his path to the highest political office..
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Descendants of two families of farmer... The routine ordered in detail in centuries and generation... But the storms of the twentieth century will mercilessly uproot them. The love of freedom of their ancestors, Cossacks, the Haidamak tradition of Kholodny Yar, the death from starvation in the 1930th will give birth to them – the new generation of Ukrainian.
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Irena Douskova. Hordyi Budscho. (Proud Whatever)


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Yaroslav Faizulin, Volodymyr Hinda. Ukraina u vohni mynuloho stolittya. Personalities, Facts, Versions. (Ukraine in the Flames of the Past Century)


The twentieth century was the time when the face of the modern Ukraine was being formed. The book is dedicated to events and personalities of the Ukrainian history in this controversial period. Based on archival documents, the book's authors highlight interesting and little known facts about outstanding events of the past and prominent personalitie...
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Tadeusz Borowski. U nas, v Aushvitsi... (We Were in Auschwitz...)


The eerie power of prose by Borowski is due to that with some otherworldly – beyond the good and evil – stylistic indifference he reveals to us the everyday life of the camp complex of Auschwitz-Birkenau. The camp world was a complex social system with its hierarchy and corruption, with intrigues and jealousy, with love and betrayal...
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Antin Mukharsky. Maidan. (R)evolutsia dukhu: the art and culture project. (The (R)Evolution of the Spirit)


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Stepan Smal-Stockyi. Nemoliv. Memoirs.


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Domestic price: 166.60UAH, International price: $11.90USD

Yevhen Ivanychuk. Kholodne nebo Pivnochi. (The Cold Northern Sky)


Evhen Ivanychuk, a brother of Ukrainian novelist Roman Ivanychuk, joined the UPA in the spring of 1944 at the age of seventeen, and a few months later he was arrested and courageously survived through GULAG prisons and camps, as well as the many years of his settlement in the northern part of Russia...
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Anna-Lena Lauren. Nevidoma tsina svobody. The Democratic Revolutions in Georgia, Ukraine, and Kyrgyzstan. (The Unknown Price of Freedom)


This is the third book by the famous Finnish journalist and writer Anna-Lena Lauren published in Ukrainian. While her previous two books reflected current realities of life in Russia and in the Caucasian republics, from this book the Ukrainian reader can learn more about the author's interested perspective of Ukraine as well.
Domestic price: 222.60UAH, International price: $15.90USD

Dmitriy Goychenko. Krasny apokalipsis: Skvoz raskulachivanie i Golodomor. Memoirs of an eye-witness. (Red Apocalypse: Through Dispossession and Great Famine)


Manuscripts by Dmytro Hoychenko are unique testimonies of the terrible times of Soviet collectivization and the Great Famine in Ukraine. In contrast to fiction works by Barka or Bahryany, historical memoirs have virtually not preserved so detailed descriptions of the misanthropic communist regime as in this book.
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Oksana Zabuzhko. Filosofia ukrajinskoji ideji ta evropeyski kontekst. / 5-th edition/. (Philosophy of the Ukrainian Idea and the European Context: Franko period)


..It is the first work in which philosophy of the national idea is considered as an independent intellectual flow that goes far beyond the political science – to questions about the essence and sense of the national existence.
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Yaroslav Polischuk. Hibrydna topohrafia. Places and Non-Places In Modern UkrLit. (Hybrid Topography)


This book deals with imaginary geography, symbolic cognition of space by means of culture – based on the example of analysis of works by Sofia and Yuriy Andrukhovych, Zhadan, Lys, Rafeenko, Shklyar. The literary topography of the terrain is presented in three projections: memorial location images; the war in its hybrid aspect; the phenomenon of "non-places"..
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Yuriy Shevelyov, Oksana Zabuzhko. Selected Correspondence against the Background of the Epoch: 1992-2002. /second edition, revised and complemented/.


This book introduces the story of long-term friendship of one of the most prominent linguists of the 20th century, the leading emigrant thinker, critic and cultural studies expert Professor of Colombia University in New York Yuriy Shevelyov-Sherekh (1908-2002) and the writer Oksana Zabuzhko.
Domestic price: 558.60UAH, International price: $39.90USD

Marko Andreychyk. Intelektual jak heroy ukrajinskoi prozy 90-h rokiv. (The Intellectual As Hero in 1990s Ukrainian Fiction)


American researcher of the Ukrainian origin Dr. Marko Andryczyk offers a profound analysis of the cultural explosion that engulfed Ukraine in the first decade of the period of its independence. The 1990-ies were a period of great creative enthusiasm, experiments and release of the Ukrainian culture...
Domestic price: 208.60UAH, International price: $14.90USD

Vasyl Simovych. Movoznavstvo. Literaturoznavstvo. Kultura. /2 volumes/. (Linguistics. Literary studies. Culture)


The first volume of works by V.Simovych contains linguistic articles and excerpts from the monograph that were written in different periods of the researcher's life and still remained largely unknown for the wider range of the Ukrainian community. The literary and cultural studies works, memoirs contain important information about the work of classic writer...
Domestic price: 1160.60UAH, International price: $82.90USD

Bohdan Rubchak. Mity metamorfoz, abo Poshuky dobroho svitu. (Myths of Metamorphoses, or Search for a Good World)


The book of essays by one of the most intellectual representatives of the New York group for the first time in Ukraine presents his extremely bright and significant elaborations in the field of literary studies. This book is a fascinating intellectual journey into the mysterious world of the Ukrainian poetry and the Ukrainian spirit.
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Jerzy Ficowski. Great Heresy Regions and Periphery. Bruno Schulz and His Mythology.


The great prosaist Bruno Schulz was doomed by time and circumstances to death by a Gestapo bullet and oblivion. However, the Polish poet and literary researcher Jerzy Ficowski saved the memory about the genius resident of Drohobych, during 60 years tirelessly searching for his earthly traces and interpreting his literary, graphic, epistolary and critical inheritance...
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Anna Bila. Symbolism.


The book by Anna Bila is devoted to symbolism as the leading aesthetic direction of the end of the 19th-beginning of the 20th century and – as a way of the outlook. In the researcher's spotlight – the evolution of this direction in Ukraine, its main stages and features, representatives and followers.
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