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Mondegreen: Songs about Death and Love (Harvard Library of Ukrainian Literature) - Softcover

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Rafeyenko; Volodymyr

 
9780674271708: Mondegreen: Songs about Death and Love (Harvard Library of Ukrainian Literature)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 067427170X ISBN 13: 9780674271708
Publisher: Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, 2022

Synopsis

A mondegreen is something that is heard improperly by someone who then clings to that misinterpretation as fact. Fittingly, Volodymyr Rafeyenko’s novel Mondegreen: Songs about Death and Love explores the ways that memory and language construct our identity, and how we hold on to it no matter what. The novel tells the story of Haba Habinsky, a refugee from Ukraine’s Donbas region, who has escaped to the capital city of Kyiv at the onset of the Ukrainian-Russian war. His physical dislocation―and his subsequent willful adoption of the Ukrainian language―place the protagonist in a state of disorientation during which he is forced to challenge his convictions. Written in beautiful, experimental style, the novel shows how people―and cities―are capable of radical transformation and how this, in turn, affects their interpersonal relations and cultural identification. Taking on crucial topics stirred by Russian aggression that began in 2014, the novel stands out for the innovative and probing manner in which it dissects them, while providing a fresh Donbas perspective on Ukrainian identity.

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About the Authors

Volodymyr Rafeyenko is a Ukrainian writer, poet, translator, literary and film critic. Although he initially wrote and published in Russian, his novel Mondegreen: Songs about Death and Love was his first in Ukrainian. His work has been recognized with a Peterson Literary Fund award, the Volodymyr Korolenko Prize, and the Visegrad Eastern Partnership Literary Award, as well as shortlisted for the 2023 EBRD Literature Prize and longlisted for the Taras Shevchenko National Prize. Rafeyenko is a research scholar at the University of Pittsburgh and writer-in-residence at City of Asylum in Pittsburgh.

Mark Andryczyk administers the Ukrainian Studies Program at the Harriman Institute at Columbia University and teaches Ukrainian literature at its Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures. He is also the author of The Intellectual as Hero in 1990s Ukrainian Fiction.

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Publisher
Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute
Publication date
2022
Language
English
ISBN 10 
067427170X
ISBN 13 
9780674271708
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
250