Recreations is a Ukrainian novella, filled with local allusions and references (usefully glossed in the accompanying endnotes). The central event is a ‘Festival of the Resurrecting Spirit’, held in Chortopil (literally: Devilsburg), the main characters four poets who have been invited to participate. Written as the Soviet Union was collapsing, Recreations is a novel of [...]

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Ukrainoje autoriai gali rašyti ką nori. Prieš dvidešimt metų, nepaisant perestroikos, toks teiginys būtų reiškęs viso labo tuš�ią viltį. Nuo tada praėjo ne tiek jau daug laiko, bet, jei demokratijos matu laikytume kūrybos laisvę, be jokių abejonių galėtume tvirtinti, kad demokratija Ukrainoje sėkmingai įsitvirtino, be to, ji yra normali, o ne valdoma.
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Perverzion is ostensibly a documentary of the last days of Ukrainian poet Stanislav ‘Stakh’ Perfetsky in March 1993, when he was an apparent suicide in Venice. He travelled there to participate in an international seminar on: “The Post-Carnival Absurdity of the World: What is on the Horizon ?” and the bulk of the book chronicles [...]

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