<p>"We should feel grateful to the translators for making Andrukhovych’s incisive essays available, for the first time and in one place, to English-speaking audiences." </p>

- Alexander Burak, <em>Slavic Review</em>

<p>"Andrukhovych is one of Ukraine’s most prominent intellectuals, perhaps the very symbol of the rise of Ukrainian postmodernism in the early 1990s."</p>

- Alessandro Achilli, <em>New Zealand Slavonic Journal</em>

Yuri Andrukhovych is one of Ukraine’s preeminent authors and cultural commentators. In recognition of his literary writings and his role as a public intellectual he has received numerous awards including the Herder Prize, the Hannah Arendt Prize, and the Goethe Medal. My Final Territory is a collection of Andrukhovych’s philosophical, autobiographical, political, and literary essays, demonstrating his enormous talent as an essayist to the English-speaking world. This volume broadens Andrukhovych’s international audience and will create a dialogue with anglophone readers throughout the world in a number of fields including philosophy, history, journalism, political science, sociology, and anthropology. In their introduction, Mark Andryczyk and Michael M. Naydan reveal a somewhat lesser-known side of Andrukhovych’s writings that places him alongside such writers as recent Belarusian Nobel Prize winner Svetlana Alexievich. Eleven of the fourteen essays in this volume, including his seminal work "Central-Eastern Revision" and a brand-new essay on the Russo-Ukrainian War, appear here for the first time in English. My Final Territory showcases Yuri Andrukhovych’s unique voice and provides insight into the Ukrainian experience of nationality and identity.
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This volume presents, for the first time in English, fourteen essays by Yuri Andrukhovych, making a well-known Ukrainian voice accessible to the English-speaking world.
Acknowledgments A Biographical Preface about the Author Michael M. Naydan En Route EndeavoursMark Andryczyk Author’s IntroductionYuri Andrukhovych Autobiographical Essay: The Central-Eastern Revision (expanded version 2005) Culturological and Political Essays:  Erz-Herz-Perz (1994)The City-Ship (1994)Carpathologia Comosphilica (1996)Time and Place, or My Final Territory (1999)A Little Bit of Urban Studies (1999)What Language Are You From: A Ukrainian Writer among the Temptations of Temporariness (2002)Meeting Place Germaschka (2002)Four Million for Our Agents (2003)A Land of Dreams (2004)The Star Absinthe: Notes on a Bitter Anniversary (2011)Love and Hatred in Kyiv (January 2014)Seven Hundred Fierce Days, or the Role of a Contrabass in the Revolution (March 2014) Afterword Yuri Andrukhovych NotesIndex
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"We should feel grateful to the translators for making Andrukhovych’s incisive essays available, for the first time and in one place, to English-speaking audiences."
"Combining playful memoir writing, history, fiction, and travelogue, My Final Territory gathers Andrukhovych’s best essays from 1996 to 2011, highlighting his views of Galicia, Lviv, Kyiv, and attitudes toward Poles, Russians, and the Soviet past. Most importantly, Andrukhovych is concerned with questions of identity, their complexity and the whimsical grounds on which they are constructed. This translation of My Final Territory captures Andrukhovych’s ‘lightness of touch’ admirably. The English-language reader learns much about Ukraine that will be novel, eye-opening, and inspiring. This is the most valuable achievement of the collection. It allows the reader to hear and see from the perspective of an outstanding contemporary Ukrainian writer and intellectual who engages with the opinions about his country held by others."
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ISBN
9781487501716
Publisert
2018-02-12
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University of Toronto Press
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440 gr
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231 mm
Bredde
160 mm
Dybde
23 mm
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U, P, 05, 06
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Engelsk
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Yuri Andrukhovych is one of Ukraine’s preeminent authors and cultural commentators. Mark Andryczyk obtained his PhD in Ukrainian Language and Literature from the University of Toronto. Michael M. Naydan is Woskob Family Professor of Ukrainian Studies at The Pennsylvania State University.