About the Book Recreations is a novel of carnivalesque vitality and acute social criticism. It celebrates newly found freedom and reflects upon the contradictions of post-Soviet society. Four poets and an entourage of secondary characters converge on fictional Chortopil for the Festival of the Resurrecting Spirit, an orgy of popular culture, civic dysfunction, national pride, and sex.
Recreations, first published in Ukrainian in 1992, established Andrukhovych as a sophisticated, yet seductively readable comic writer with penetrating insights into his volatile times. The novel delights with its extravagant and eccentric variety. For all of its artful devices it aims to be lucid, not dark, and readable, not forbidding.
Yuri Andrukhovych's works have been translated and published in Poland, Germany, Hungary, Austria, Russia, Finland, Italy, Canada and the United States.
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About the Author
Yuri Andrukhovych was born in 1960 in Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine. He began publishing in literary journals in 1982. In 1985, together with Viktor Neborak and Oleksandr Irvanets, he founded the popular literary performance group "Bu-Ba-Bu" (Burlesque-Bluster-Buffoonery). This association was a seminal part of the literary culture of the 1980s, and its members continue to be active. Andrukhovych's first book, Sky and Squares (poems), appeared in 1985. Military service in 1983 and 1984 inspired him to write a series of seven "army stories", that were published in 1989. The life of a soldier in the "Red Army" was the subject of his screenplay which was the basis for A. Donchyk's film Oxygen Starvation (1991). From 1989 to 1991 he studied in Moscow at the M.Gorky Literary Institute. At that time he published more poetry books Downtown (1989) and Exotic Birds and Plants (1991, new edition 1997). Andrukhovych's prose works, the novels Recreations (1992, new edition 1997), Moscoviad (1993, new edition 1997), and Perversion (1996, new edition 1997) made a great impression on readers in Ukraine and abroad. With Yuri Izdryk Andrukhovych co-edited Thursday, "an irregular journal of texts and visions". He is an editor at Potyah 76.
About the Translator Marko Pavlyshyn is the director of the Mykola Zerov Centre for Ukrainian Studies and head of the School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. He is the author of Canon and Iconostasis (1997), editor of Glasnost in Context (1990), Stus as Text (1992), co-editor of Ukraine in the 1990s (1992), as well as other scholarly collections and articles on contemporary Ukrainian literature and numerous articles on contemporary Ukrainian literature. His translation of Yuri Izdryk's novel, Wozzeck, was published by CIUS Press in 2006.
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