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My Europe

Essays
Original title: Моя Європа, published in 2000 by Czarne
Suhrkamp | Insel
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My Europe / Mein Europa
Essays
Original title: Моя Європа, published in 2000 by Czarne
In these »two essays on the strangest part of the world«, Yuri Andrukhovych and Andrzej Stasiuk offer a stereoscopic portrait of central Europe. On foot and by car, they travelled together between the Beskids and Bukovina, through Poland, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, and Ukraine. By turns ethnographers, cartographers, reporters and poets, they create a new territory: a literary Middle Europe. Andrukhovych is following the trail of his great-grandfather, who,...
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In these »two essays on the strangest part of the world«, Yuri Andrukhovych and Andrzej Stasiuk offer a stereoscopic portrait of central Europe. On foot and by car, they travelled together between the Beskids and Bukovina, through Poland, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, and Ukraine. By turns ethnographers, cartographers, reporters and poets, they create a new territory: a literary Middle Europe. Andrukhovych is following the trail of his great-grandfather, who, before the First World War, moved from Bohemia to Galicia. On the way he rediscovers the sunken history of these tiny metropolises. Meanwhile, Stasiuk takes on the role of a hyper-perceptive, magic-eyed land surveyor. Their »geopoetics« represents an essential contribution to the discovery of the new Europe and to overcoming the barriers that the expansion of the EU in May 2004 threatens to erect between Poland and Ukraine.
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Suhrkamp authors on the situation in Ukraine.
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Suhrkamp authors on the situation in Ukraine.

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Suhrkamp authors on the situation in Ukraine.

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Yuri Andrukhovych was born in 1960 in Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine. He is considered the leading contemporary Ukrainian writer. He writes poems, prose, essays and translates from German and Polish.

Yuri Andrukhovych was born in 1960 in Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine. He is considered the leading contemporary Ukrainian writer. He writes poems,...

Andrzej Stasiuk, born in Warsaw in 1960, has been living in the Beskides since 1986. He writes poems, stories, novels, also works as a journalist and scriptwriter and together with his wife Monika Sznajderman directs the publishing house Czarne located in Wolowiec. He has received numerous literary awards, among them the Samuel Bogumil Linde Prize for Literature (2002), the Nike Prize (Poland, 2005) for Jadąc do Babadag, the Adalbert Stifter Prize (2005), the Vilenica Prize and the Austrian State Prize for European Literature (2016).

Andrzej Stasiuk, born in Warsaw in 1960, has been living in the Beskides since 1986. He writes poems, stories, novels, also works as a...


OTHER PUBLICATIONS

The Price of Our Freedom
Year of Publication: 2023
Juri AndruchowytschYear of Publication: 2023

»They belong to us, they are one of us and we want them in« – Yuri Andrukhovych had been waiting for this sentence, which presented the prospect of EU membership to his country, for many years. It was uttered in Brussels, three days after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. »A deep exhale – amidst the blaring sirens.«

Twenty years ago, his brilliant volume of essays My Final...

Crossing
Year of Publication: 2023
Andrzej StasiukYear of Publication: 2023
It’s June of 1941, a few days before the German invasion of the Soviet Union. In a village along the Bug River, German soldiers have taken up quarters, while Polish partisans are hiding out...
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Spain (Acantilado), France (Actes Sud), Sweden (Ersatz), Croatia (Fraktura), Slovenia (Cankarjeva Založba)

Radio Night
Year of Publication: 2021
Juri AndruchowytschYear of Publication: 2021

»I have always dreamt of writing a novel that has a sound,« says Yuri Andrukhovych, who has spent his life singing, rehearsing with his band and playing countless concerts. His...

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English world rights (NYRB), Spanish world rights (Acantilado), Brazilian Portuguese rights (Editora Zain), France (Noir sur Blanc), Poland (Czytelnik), Slovak Republic (N Press), Hungary (Helikon), Bulgaria (Paradox), Romania (Trei), Croatia (Fraktura), Slovenia (Mladinska Knjiga)

 

The Beskid Chronicles
Year of Publication: 2020
Andrzej StasiukYear of Publication: 2020
Andrzej Stasiuk is an author who often seeks out the great yonder in his writing. In The Beskid Chronicles, though, he turns his inimitable eye to his homeland of Poland, a country undergoing rapid and often subtle transformations. The book gathers together feature articles and poetic miniatures written by Stasiuk between 2013 and 2018 for the Polish weekly paper Tygodnik...
A Short Book about Dying
Year of Publication: 2018
Andrzej StasiukYear of Publication: 2018
Andrzej Stasiuk, famous for the artfulness with which he describes deteriorating places and disappearing landscapes, tells four stories about death and departure. There is Augustyn, his writer...
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 Spain (Acantilado), France (Actes Sud),​​​​​​​ Italy (Atmosphere Libri), Hungary (Magveto),

The East
Year of Publication: 2017
Andrzej StasiukYear of Publication: 2017
Andrzej Stasiuk’s big book about the »East«. The sum of his travels and writings – recorded in one epic stream and told through captivating episodes and epiphanies. Stasiuk...
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France (Actes Sud), Sweden (Ersatz), Czech Republic (Kniha Zlin, s. r. o), Slovakia (Slovart), Croatia (Fraktura), Ukraine (Old Lion),

Justice’s Darlings
Year of Publication: 2017
Juri AndruchowytschYear of Publication: 2017

Justice’s Darlings, these are crimes and criminals, real and alleged: Bohdan Stashynsky, for example, a KGB officer and assassin who kills the Ukrainian nationalist Stepan Bandera in his...

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Spanish world rights (Acantilado), Poland (Warstwy), Bulgaria (Paradox)

Taksim
Year of Publication: 2016
Andrzej StasiukYear of Publication: 2016
Władek and Pawel are rattling around the markets and bazaars of southern Europe in their old, clapped-out delivery van. But their second-hand clothes from “Paris-London-New York” are no...
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Spain (Acantilado), France (Actes Sud), Sweden (Ersatz), Norway (Aschehoug), Slovakia (Slovart), Hungary (Magveto), Croatia (Fraktura), Slovenia (Studentska Zalozba Beletrina)

White Raven
Year of Publication: 2016
Andrzej StasiukYear of Publication: 2016
Five old school friends in post-communist Warsaw. Now all fathers in their early thirties, they head off into the unknown. Sick of their everyday lives, they let the melancholic and charismatic Wasyl convince them to go on an adventure that takes them into the wild, sparsely populated region along the Polish-Slovakian border. When one of them assaults a custom’s officer, their winter foray...
There Are No Expressways on Golden Roads
Year of Publication: 2015
Andrzej StasiukYear of Publication: 2015
Nobody is more at home on the road than the Polish writer Andrzej Stasiuk. The fifty prose vignettes gathered in this collection narrate journeys through sparsely populated regions on the Polish-Ukrainian border, the steppes of Siberia, and the vast, open spaces of China and Mongolia.

A declaration of love for untrodden paths and neglected regions, wandering through memories and dreams...
Post-Scriptum Diary
Year of Publication: 2013
Andrzej StasiukYear of Publication: 2013
Andrzej Stasiuk has never written about Poland and the West with the same wrath as he does here, in the wake of his most recent travels through the Balkans. Having returned from countries with “real personalities”, where minarets loom over minefields and burial grounds, Stasiuk bristles about some of the contradictions in his home country: dreaming of martyrdom but then choosing...
Small Encyclopedia of Intimate Cities
Year of Publication: 2011
Juri AndruchowytschYear of Publication: 2011

Yuri Andrukhovych has invested a lot of time in familiarising himself with foreign cities. In some of them, he got stuck for a while. Others have become true parts of his life:...

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Spanish world rights (Acantilado), France (Noir sur Blanc), Croatia (Fraktura)

Winter
Year of Publication: 2009
Andrzej StasiukYear of Publication: 2009
»You’re not going to end up on the junkheap«, says Grzesiek to his orange Syrena sedan as he drives along the Polish-Slovakian border with a bootful of copper wiring. »I’ll find someone for you. Maybe a pensioner. He’ll look after you, and the two of you can grow old together.«

Like in Stasiuk’s famous Galician Stories,...
Dojczland
Year of Publication: 2008
Andrzej StasiukYear of Publication: 2008
»Holding back tears at the sight of a Mercedes-Benz factory. Boarding the silver bullet of the intercity train, autumn in your heart. Strolling through Berlin's Olympic Stadium, a...
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Fado
Year of Publication: 2008
Andrzej StasiukYear of Publication: 2008
»In this delightful collection of essays – by turns wry and reflective, wistful and witty – contemporary Polish writer Andrzej Stasiuk turns his attention to the villages and small towns of...
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The Secret
Year of Publication: 2007
Juri AndruchowytschYear of Publication: 2007
Rarely do the private and the political intertwine so closely as in this ironic portrait of an author who doesn't trust himself an inch.

Where did you feel happy? Why did the football match make you cry? Whose books would you like to learn by heart? Questions a German journalist poses to a Ukrainian author spending a year in Berlin. Over seven whole days, Egon Alt and...
Angels and Demons of the Periphery
Year of Publication: 2006
Juri AndruchowytschYear of Publication: 2006
»A little bit Sisyphus, a little bit Sacher-Masoch« is how Ukraine’s best-known writer described himself in 2007. The »orange revolution« is a thing of the past, any hopes and dreams are pretty much dead and buried, »let’s start again from the beginning«: with reading Hesse, Benn and Lina Kostenko, early and formative experiences, with the...
On the Road to Babadag
Year of Publication: 2005
Andrzej StasiukYear of Publication: 2005
Herds of cows on a stretch of rail tracks beyond Oradea, sheep on a suburban street in Satu Mare, a white horse grazing in the middle of Suceava – the dirtiest, remotest, most god-forsaken part of...
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Cardboard Airplane
Year of Publication: 2004
Andrzej StasiukYear of Publication: 2004

At the beginning, there is the longing of a child to be simultaneously here and elsewhere. It is appeased in traveling and reading.


Impressions from Central Europe, a metaphor of the ›variety of worlds‹: a medial cosmos here, the disposability of each and every possible information, a fallen into decay sanatorium there, a ›galician magic...
Twelve Circles
Year of Publication: 2003
Juri AndruchowytschYear of Publication: 2003
In the 1990s, Karl-Joseph Zumbrunnen, an Austrian photographer with Galician roots, travels repeatedly through the Ukraine. The birth pangs of this new state, the incongruous mixture of brutally...
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