$106.14
- Hardcover
300 pages
- Release Date
27 December 2025
Summary
The City: A Ukrainian Masterpiece of Existential Exploration
Valerian Pidmohylnyi’s The City stands as a pivotal work in Ukrainian literature. Penned by a masterful author with complete command over the narrative’s nuances, the novel follows Stepan, a young provincial man who journeys to Kyiv, the Ukrainian capital, and finds literary success through a series of romantic relationships.
At its heart, The City delves into a philosophical quest for balance in …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780674291119 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0674291115 |
| Author: | Valerian Pidmohylnyi, Maxim Tarnawsky |
| Publisher: | Harvard University Press |
| Imprint: | Harvard University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 300 |
| Release Date: | 27 December 2025 |
| Weight: | 666g |
| Dimensions: | 203mm x 127mm |
| Series: | Harvard Library of Ukrainian Literature |
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Critics Review
Couldn’t come at a more important time. Its circulation revives a long-suppressed truth, silenced for generations under Russian oppression: Ukrainian literature is, and has always been, an integral part of European literature.–Kate Tsurkan “Kyiv Independent” (10/9/2025 12:00:00 AM)
About The Author
Valerian Pidmohylnyi
Valerian Pidmohylnyi (1901–1937) was one of the most prominent Ukrainian modernist writers, translators, and literary scholars of the early twentieth century. Three years after his arrest by the Soviet authorities in 1934, Pidmohylnyi was executed in Sandarmokh (Karelian Republic) with over 1,000 other prominent Ukrainian writers, poets, intellectuals, and activists in what later was dubbed the Executed Renaissance.
Maxim Tarnawsky is Professor of Ukrainian Language and Literature at the University of Toronto. He is the author of The All-Encompassing Eye of Ukraine: Ivan Nechui-Levyts´kyi’s Realist Prose and Between Reason and Irrationality: The Prose of Valerijan Pidmoyl´nyi, and the translator and the editor of Ukrainian Literature: A Journal of Translations. Maxim Tarnawsky is Professor of Ukrainian Language and Literature at the University of Toronto. He is the author of The All-Encompassing Eye of Ukraine: Ivan Nechui-Levyts´kyi’s Realist Prose and Between Reason and Irrationality: The Prose of Valerijan Pidmoyl´nyi, and the translator and the editor of Ukrainian Literature: A Journal of Translations.
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