True war & combat stories
Fugue 119. Tonality of captivity
by Igor Mykhaylyshyn
Description
"Fugue 119" is based on true story of the "Donbas" battalion volunteers who were captured by Russians after the famous battle at the city of Ilovaisk (Donbas). The book describes how it is to be a prisoner of war. It was impossible to write about the events in a traditional writing method and author invented his own. He applied the principle of composing a fugue - a polyphonic piece of music to his writing. The structure of the book is based on a double three-part fugue with a code. This makes it possible to fully convey the plexus of pain and horror - the every day routine of captivity, where the way out is possible only through death. "Fugue 119" is a continuation of the book "Dance of Death" and is the second in the upcoming trilogy "2014". "Fugue 119" was long listed for the "BBC Book of the Year 2021"
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Author Biography
Igor Mykhailyshyn was born on November 9, 1990 in the village of Kuty, Kosiv district, Ivano-Frankivsk region, Ukraine. In 2013 he graduated from the law faculty of Yuri Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University. Igor also studied at the Reinhold Glier Kyiv Municipal Academy of Music. Igor played on the famous street piano in December 2013 amidst the Revolution of Dignity in Kyiv. Later he joined Donbas Battalion of the National Guard of Ukraine (2014-2015) as a volunteer and the Armed Forces of Ukraine (2015-2016). As a shooting and grenade launcher instructor he took part in the liberation of Popasna, Lysychansk, Ilovaisk, parts of Marinka. After the fall of Ilovaysk he spent 120 days in captivity, 5 times he was promised to be exchanged, but in vain: “Then I understood and wrote about it in the book” Fugue 911 “, that hope is a treacherous feeling in captivity. She takes on a lot of emotions that are not justified. You wait, you hope, nothing happens – and you’re exhausted, and you don’t care any more. ” Author of the books "Dance of Death. Diary of a volunteer of the Donbas Battalion (2019) and Fuga 119 (2021)
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Bibliographic Information
- Publisher DIPA Publishing House
- Publication Date 2021
- Orginal LanguageUkrainian
- ISBN/Identifier 9786177606597
- Publication Country or regionUkraine
- Pages344
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusPublished
- Original Language TitleФуга 119. В тональності полону
- Original Language AuthorsМихайлишин Ігор
