Class meets on Tuesdays from 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM.
Books that must be purchased:
You may purchase these books at the University of Toronto bookstore, online, used, or anywhere else they're available. You may purchase an electronic text (Kindle, etc.). Do not delay purchasing books, if you start late, you may not get them in time.
- Leopold von Sacher-Masoch. Love. The Legacy of Cain. Trans Michael O'Pecko. Riverside: Ariadne Press, 2003. Amazon
- Bruno Schulz. Collected Stories. Trans. Madeline Levine. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2018. Amazon
- S. Y. Agnon. A Simple Story. Trans. Hillel Halkin. Amazon
- Joseph Roth. Collected Stories. Trans. Michael Hofmann Amazon
- Stanislaw Wyspianski. The Wedding. Trans. Noel Clark. London: Oberon, 1998. Amazon, Publisher
- Yuri Vynnychuk. Tango of Death. Trans. Michael M. Naydan and Olha Tytarenko. New York: Spuyten Duyvil, 2019. ISBN 978-1-949966-33-6. Amazon, Publisher
Readings available online:
- Norman Davies. "Galicia: Kingdom of the Naked and Starving (1773–1918)." Excerpt from Norman Davies, Vanished Kingdoms: The History of Half-Forgotten Europe,
New York: Penguin Books, 2011, pp. 449–81.
- Ivan Franko. Boa Constrictor.
- Ivan Franko. “The Involuntary Hero” and “The Cuthroats” from Winds of Change. Trans. Roma Franko. Toronto: Language Lanterns, 2006.
- Karl Emil Franzos. The Jews of Barnow: Stories. W. M. Macdowall. Originally published New York: D. Appleton, 1883. Gutenberg project ebook.
- Mykhailo Kotsiubyns'kyi. "Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors."
- Stanislaw Lem.Highcastle: A Remembrance. Trans. Michael Kandel.
- Andrzej Stasiuk. Tales of Galicia. Trans. Margarita Nafpaktitis. Prague: Twisted Spoon, 2003.
- Vasyl Stefanyk. The Stone Cross.
- Johann Georg Kohl. “Lemberg” from his Austria