The late 1980s and early 1990s saw an intensive re-examination and change of long lasting cultural paradigms and value systems in Ukrainian culture. A period of transition and crisis, these years culminated in 1991 with the achievement of political independence and the constitution of Ukraine as a discrete political, economical and cultural entity. This event [...]

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И тем не менее наутро первого дн� они конечно в�е про�нули�ь – кто как, разумеет��, и кто � чем.
�ртура Пепу чуть ли не �илой выдернуло из его �новидений, ему хотело�ь о�тавать�� там подольше, дове�ти дело до завершени�, хоть какого-нибудь, но грохот, у�троенный Ромой Вороныч в ванной (лавины �брошенных в раковину умывальника ко�метиче�ких безделиц вкупе �о [...]

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МоÑ�ковіада is set during the time of the collapsing Soviet Union, the central character, Otto von F. — like Andrukhovych himself in those years — a Ukrainian poet who is a student at the (in)famous Gorki Institute, the Soviet answer to the creative writing MFA-programme. It begins with an amusing run-down of Soviet writing-school life, [...]

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