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.
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 place 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 recent events, 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.
'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.' - Alexander Burak, University of Florida, Slavic Review
By:
Yuri Andrukhovych
Translated by:
Mark Andryczyk,
Michael Naydan
Imprint: University of Toronto Press
Country of Publication: Canada
Dimensions:
Height: 229mm,
Width: 152mm,
Spine: 17mm
Weight: 260g
ISBN: 9781487550813
ISBN 10: 1487550812
Pages: 200
Publication Date: 01 July 2023
Audience:
College/higher education
,
Professional and scholarly
,
Primary
,
Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Acknowledgments A Biographical Preface about the Author Michael M. Naydan En Route Endeavours Mark Andryczyk Author’s Introduction Yuri 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 Notes Index
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.
Reviews for My Final Territory: Selected Essays
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. -- Alexander Burak * <em>Slavic Review</em> * Andrukhovych is one of Ukraine's most prominent intellectuals, perhaps the very symbol of the rise of Ukrainian postmodernism in the early 1990s. -- Alessandro Achilli * <em>New Zealand Slavonic Journal</em> *
- Winner of The American Association for Ukrainian Studies Book Award (Translation) 2019 (United States)
