The Secret
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 Yuri Andrukhovych talked about Soviet-look Habsburg, about stations, border posts and forgotten dreams. About prohibited music, recruits in the Red Army, and legendary Happenings. Seven chapters »on myself and the times I live in« as 48-year-old Yuri Andrukhovych writes in the foreword to his new book. The excessive dialogue confronting him with his life and writing is a compelling slice of contemporary history.»Yuri Andrukhovych writes about his homeland in such a fascinating, cosmopolitan way that we are shocked by our own provinciality.« Neue Zürcher Zeitung
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Juri Andruchowytsch
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,...
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
The Price of Our Freedom
»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...
Radio Night
»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 latest work...
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)
Justice’s Darlings
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...
Spanish world rights (Acantilado), Poland (Warstwy), Bulgaria (Paradox)
Angels and Demons of the Periphery
My Europe
Spanish world rights (Acantilado), France (Noir sur Blanc), Italy (print edition Mimesis / digital edition GoWare), Hungary (Kijarat), Romania (Polirom)
Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: Czech Republic (Periplum), Bulgaria (Lektura), Croatia (Fraktura)
Perverzion
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...
USA (Northwestern UP), Spain (Acantilado), Russia (NLO), France (Noir sur Blanc), Italy (Del Vecchio), Finland (Loki Kirjat), Poland (Czarne), Bulgaria (Paradox), Serbia (Clio)