Writing from Ukraine: Fiction, Poetry and Essays since 1965 edited by Mark Andryczyk xmasart fragmentation

fragmentation

Larysa Denysenko

the urban merchants and meshchane

More than a dozen great artists were visible enough for Stalin to take an interest in them – which meant he chose whether they were to live in luxury and be publicly honoured or to be sent to the Lubyanka for torture and execution

showcases the reaction of Ivan Vladimirov (1869-1947) to the human suffering and Bolshevik barbarity he observed as an artist-reporter during the years 1917-25

Writing from Ukraine: Fiction, Poetry and Essays since 1965 edited by Mark Andryczyk xmasart fragmentationUnder USSR rule, the subject matter and style of literary expression in Ukraine was strictly controlled and censored. But once Ukraine gained independence in 1991 its literary scene flourished, as the moving and delightful poems, essays and extracts collected here show. There are fifteen authors included in this book, both established and emerging, and in this anthology we see them grappling with history and the future, with big questions and small