»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 Territory (Дезорієнтація на місцевості), a classic today, was the opening of a discussion that...
»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 Territory (Дезорієнтація на місцевості), a classic today, was the opening of a discussion that continued up until February 23, 2022: Where does Ukrainian society want to go? What is the country’s place in Europe? Andrukhovych, a lone voice, warned of Russia’s ambitions to become a great power at every possible opportunity. As the Sisyphus of European understanding, he asked that Ukraine not be forgotten. The Price of Our Freedom gathers texts written between 2014, the year of the Euromaidan, and 2023. They are compulsory reading for everyone who wants to understand how the unimaginable could have happened.
»In Andruchowytsch’s collected speeches and essays, published under the fitting title of The Price of Our Freedom, the essay is revealed as the second major field of mastery of this novelist: always personal, shrewd, and concrete. By turns melancholic and scathing, but never sentimental.« Welt am Sonntag
»Reading Yuri Andruchowytsch’s essay collection The Price of Our Freedom, which gathers together texts from between 2014 and 2023, you find yourself asking time and again: Why did people not listen to this voice of warning before it was too late?« Ilma Rakusa, Neue Zürcher Zeitung
»In Andruchowytsch’s collected speeches and essays, published under the fitting title of The Price of Our Freedom, the essay is revealed as the second major field of mastery of this novelist: always personal,...
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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
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)
Small Encyclopedia of Intimate Cities
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:...
Spanish world rights (Acantilado), France (Noir sur Blanc), Croatia (Fraktura)
The Secret
Angels and Demons of the Periphery
Twelve Circles
Spanish world rights (Acantilado), France (Noir sur Blanc), Italy (Del Vecchio), Norway (Cappelen Damm), Slovenia (Cankarjeva)
Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: English world rights (Spuyten Duyvil), Hungary (Gondolat), Bulgaria (Paradox), Romania (RAO), Lithuania (Lithuanian Writers), Croatia (Fraktura), Serbia (Filip Visnjic)
My Europe
Spanish world rights (Acantilado), France (Noir sur Blanc), Italy (print edition Mimesis / digital edition GoWare), Hungary (Kijarat), Bulgaria (Lektura), Romania (Polirom)
Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: Czech Republic (Periplum), Croatia (Fraktura)
The Moscoviad
Spanish world rights (Acantilado), France (Noir sur Blanc), Italy (Besa), Sweden (Ersatz), Norway (Cappelen Damm), Poland (Czarne), Lithuania (Hieronymus), Croatia (Fraktura), Slovenia (Cankarjeva), Greece (World Books), Israel (Nine Lives Press), Ethiopia/Amharic (Hohe Publisher)
Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: USA (Spuyten Duyvil), Russia (New Literary Review), Czech Republic (FRA), Slovakia (Kalligram), Hungary (Gondolat), Bulgaria (Paradox), Romania (Allfa), Macedonia (Makedonska Rech), Belarus (ARCHE), Georgia (Sulakauri)
My Final Territory
English world rights (University of Toronto Press), Spanish world rights (Acantilado), Hungary (Racio), Serbia (Kulturni Centar Novi Sad)
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)