Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
SLA228 Spring, 20th Century Ukrainian Fiction in Translation, 2023
Class meeets on Thursdays from 1:00 to 3:00 PM in AH 108.
The following required textbooks must be purchased:
Maik Yohansen.
The Journey of the Learned Doctor Leonardo and his Future Lover, the Beauteous Alceste, to the Switzerland of Slobozhanshchyna
Trans. Svitlana Yakovenko. Intro. Marko Pavlyshyn. Sova Books (Amazon), 2021. 978-0-6489485-2-0. Amazon
Emma Andievsky. A Novel About a Good Person. Trans. Olha Rudakevych. Edmonton: CIUS Press. 2018. ISBN: 9781894865494. CIUS Press, Amazon.ca.
Yuri Andrukhovych. Recreations. Trans. Marko Pavlyshyn. Edmonton: CIUS Press, 1998. ISBN: 978-1895571240. CIUS Press, Amazon.ca. You can find an electronic copy of this text here.
The following novels and collections of short stories will be required reading:
- Mykola Khvylovy. Stories From the Ukraine. PG3948 .K49 A25 The first story, "Puss in Boots", is available separately. A revised translation of “My Self (Romantica)” is available here.
- Andriy Holovko. The Weeds. PG3948 .H6 B813 1976
- Borys Antonenko-Davydovych. Duel.
- V. Pidmohylny, O. Slisarenko, H. Kosynka, I. Senchenko, O. Dosvitny, M. Ivchenko, Yu. Vukhnal, O. Vyshnia, B. Antonenko-Davydovych.
- Valerian Pidmohylny. The City. Tr. Maxim Tarnawsky. Ukrainian Literature: A Journal of Translations, Part 1, Vol 4; Part 2, Vol 5
- Oles' Honchar (Gonchar). Man and Arms. PG3948 .H63 L5813 1985
- Emma Andievsky. A Novel About a Good Person. Trans. Olha Rudakevych. Edmonton: CIUS Press. 2018. ISBN: 9781894865494. CIUS Press, Amazon.ca
- Valery Shevchuk. The Meek Shall Inherit. PG3949.29 .H47 N2513 1989
- Volodymyr Iavorivsky. Maria and Wormwood at the End of the Century. In the Journal Soviet Literature, 1988. pg. 3 - 137. AP 50 .S66 ROBA 1
- Volodymyr Dibrova. Peltse and Pentameron. Trans. Halyna Hryn. Evanston, Il.: Northwestern University Press, 1996.
- Yuri Andrukhovych. Recreations. Trans. Marko Pavlyshyn. Edmonton: CIUS Press, 1998. ISBN: 978-1895571240.
- Yuri Izdryk. Wozzeck. Trans. Marko Pavlyshyn. Edmonton: CIUS Press, 2006. ISBN: 1894865065, 9781894865067. CIUS Press, Amazon.ca,
ISBN 1-55050-134-8.
Suggested further reading: (and topics for presentations)
- Novels:
- Borys Antonenko-Davydovych. Behind the Curtain. PG3948 .A63 Z213
- Volodimir Drozd. The Road to Mother. PG3949.14 .R68 D613 1987
- Alexander Gonchar. Standard-Bearers. LU H7696zn .Ej [Note: old classification]
- Oles Gonchar. The Cyclone. Not available at Robarts.
- Oles' Honchar. The Cathedral. Trans. Yuri Tkach and Leonid Rudnytzky. Philadelphia: St. Sophia Religious Association of Ukrainian Catholics, 1989. 0-88054-157-1. PG3948.25 .H63 S613 1989 SMC
- Oles Gonchar. The Shore of Love. PG 3948 .H63B413 ROBA 1
- Volodymyr Gzhytsky. Night and Day. PG3948 .H93 N513 1988
- George Luckyj. Ukrainian Literature in the Twentieth Century: A Reader's Guide.
- Volodimir Malik. The Cossack Ambassador. PG3949.23 .A57 P613 1985
- Dmitro Mishchenko. The Siverianians. Not available at Robarts.
- Yuri Mushketik. Cruel Mercy. PG 3948 .M76Z313 1986
- Rostislav Sambuk. The Jeweler From Capuchins Street. PG3949.29 .A4 I813 1982
- Vasyl Shevchuk. Blood Brothers. PG3949.29 .H48 P6513
- Yuriy Shcherbak. Chernobyl. TK1362 .S65 S47 1989 Engineering & Computer Science Library (not Robarts)
- Mikhailo Stelmakh. Let the Blood of Man Not Flow. PG3948 .S8 K713
- Vadym Sobko. Guarantee of Peace. PG3948 .S623713 1951
- Zinaida Tulub. The Exile. Not available at Robarts.
- Volodimir Vladko Descendants of the Scythians. PG3948 .V49 N313 1986
- Pavlo Zagrebelny. From the Point of View of Eternity. Not available at Robarts.
- Yuri Yanovsky. The Horsemen. PG3948 .I3 V413 1987.
- Vasil Zemlyak. The Swan Flock. PG3948 .Z39 L413 1982
- Vasil Zemlyak. Green Mills. Not available at Robarts.
- Short Stories:
- Luckyj, George S. N. Modern Ukrainian Short Stories. Englewood, Colo: Ukrainian Academic Press, 1995.
Modern Ukrainian short stories
- Short Stories from the 1920s. This is a selection of texts from Before the Storm: Soviet Ukrainian Fiction of the 1920s. Ed. George Luckyj. Trans. Yuri Tkacz. Ann Arbor: Ardis, 1986.
- Anatol Dimarov. Across the Bridge. PG3949 .I45 C413
- Anatol Dimarov. A Hunger Most Cruel. PG3940 .D56 2002
- Arkhip Teslenko. Stories. PG3948 .T43 O7 1981
- Oles Berdnyk. Apostle of Immortality.
- Oless Gonchar. Short Stories. PG3948 .H63 A26
- Hryhir Tyutyunnyk. Cool Mint. PG3949.3 .I85 K513 1986
- Andriy Holovko. The Red Kerchief. PG3948 .H6 C413
- Soviet Ukrainian Short Stories. PG3986 .E8 S68 1983
- Before the Storm. PG3986 .E8 B44 1986
- Valor. PG3986 .E8 V34
- From Three Worlds. PG3931 .F713 199 and also PG3931 .F765 1996 SMC
Here's the schedule of reports.
Ukraianian originals of the works we read:
Additional suggested reading. Graduate students and others:
- Myroslav Shkandrij, “Irony in the Works of Mykola Khvyl'ovy”
- Maxim Tarnawsky, Between Reason and Irrationality: The Prose of Valerijan Pidmohylʹnyj Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1994. Chapter 4 on Misto
University of Toronto Press, 1994
Background reading.
- Luckyj, George S. N. Literary Politics in the Soviet Ukraine, 1917-1934. Durham: Duke University Press, 1990.
- Shkandrij, Myroslav. Modernists, Marxists and the Nation: The Ukrainian Literary Discussion of the 1920s. Edmonton: Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, 1992.
- Khvylʹovyĭ, Mykola, and Myroslav Shkandrij. The Cultural Renaissance in Ukraine: Polemical Pamphlets, 1925-1926. Edmonton: Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta, 1986.