Class meets on Tuesdays 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM online in Quercus.
| Instructor: | Maxim Tarnawsky | 121 St. Joseph St. | Alumni Hall 403 |
| tarn@chass.utoronto.ca | 416–978–8972 |
| Course Schedule |
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| Jan | 12 |
Introduction. Ukrainian fiction after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Read Oles' Ulianenko, “Dinosaur Eggs” for this class. | 19 | Valerii Shevchuk. Eye of the Abyss. (Part 1) and (Part 2) |
| 26 | Taras Prokhasko. The UnSimple. (Part 1) and (Part 2) | |
| Feb | 2 | Yuri Andrukhovych. Twelve Circles. |
| 9 | Oksana Zabuzhko. Field Work in Ukrainian Sex. | |
| 16 | Reading week | |
| 23 | Serhiy Zhadan. Voroshilovhrad. Mid term test due | |
| 30 | Tanja Maljartschuk. A Biography of a Chance Miracle. Tr. Zenia Tompkins | |
| Mar | 2 | Fiction and Poetry sections from the Winter 2018 Issue of Apofenie an online literary journal. "Happy Naked People," Kateryna Babkina; "Manhort's Copy," Maxym Dupeshko; "A Room for Sorrow," Andriy Lyubka; "Losers Want More," Tanja Maljartschuk; "The Yellow Chinese Jeep," Serhiy Zhadan; "Soldier" and other poems, Oksana Lutsyshyna; "Histology" and other poems, Andriy Tuzhykov; A cycle of poems about the War, Khrystia Vengryniuk. |
| 9 | Maria Matios. Hardly Ever Otherwise | |
| 16 | Irena Karpa, from Mother-of-Pearl Porn (A Supermarket of Loneliness) and “Rainy Day;” Tanya Malyarchuk, “A Village and its Witches,” from From Above Looking Down, and “Lesya and her Dentist;” and Sofia Andrukhovych, “Forevatogetha” and “Death is Sexy” (All in Hersories: An Anthology... pp. 352–409). | |
| 23 | Andrey Kurkov. Death and the Penguin. | |
| 30 | Andriy Lyubka. Carbide. | |
| Apr | 7 | Artem Chekh. Absolute Zero. In-class concluding test. |
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