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Angelus Award 2006
Leipzig Book Award for European Understanding 2006
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 tasteless commercialization, backward Hutsul folklore, re-Sovietization and Habsburg nostalgia fascinates him.
The chaos of the transitional post-Socialist era seems to him infinitely more appealing than the boring life in the West – especially since falling in love with his interpreter Roma Woronytsch. He accompanies her on a hair-raising trip to the Carpathian mountains. We hear of the happenings in the solitude of the mountains, in the »inn on the moon«, a former observatory and subsequent sports hotel, where, in between movie makers, strippers, bodyguards and intellectuals, Bohdan-Ihor Antonytsch, the outlawed modernist Ukrainian poet is to be found in person; of how, in the end, Zumbrunnen meets his death and embarks on his wonderfully lyrically night flight over central Europe – Andrukhovych relates all this so absorbingly, with so much wit and irony that it is only later that we understand why this postmodern folk novel from Ukraine is in fact about us and the West.»Andrukhovych is a master of literary legerdemain, keeping twelve balls in the air at once, dazzling us with his verve and dexterity, bringing us into a Carpathian trance which is both daydream and nightmare.« Bill Luvaas, Open Letters Monthly
»Twelve Circles is a flamboyant meditation on the history of everything. Don’t expect the trains to run on time but (in their own time) they arrive and depart and in due time the story of Karl-Joseph Zumbrunnen unfolds before our eyes. Andrukhovych is the ultimate omniscient narrator and his mile-long sentences chart their own unbroken course, fearlessly, with no end in sight. It’s all in the details, the unspoken truths, the sidelong glances ...« Lewis Warsh
»Yuri Andrukhovych writes about his homeland in such a fascinating, cosmopolitan way that we are shocked by our own provinciality.« Ilma Rakusa, Neue Zürcher Zeitung
»Andrukhovych is a master of literary legerdemain, keeping twelve balls in the air at once, dazzling us with his verve and dexterity, bringing us into a Carpathian trance which is both daydream and nightmare.« Bill Luvaas, Open Letters Monthly
»Twelve Circles is a flamboyant meditation on the history of everything. Don’t expect the trains to run on time but (in their own time) they arrive and depart and in due time the story of Karl-Joseph...
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,...
»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...
»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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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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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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The godchild of Rabelais and Bakhtin, Bulgakov and Esterházy, it is a whirligig of forms, styles, and apocryphal traditions – an adventure for readers who view life not as...
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