Humanities & Social Sciences

More or Less

by Oleksandr Boichenko

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The role of the intellectual in Ukraine and the world, the sense of irony, the Nazi and communist totalitarian regimes depicted by Tadeusz Borowski and Gustaw Herling-Grudzinski. Taras Shevchenko depicted through the eyes of Hryhoriy Hrabovych. Ivan Franko depicted through the eyes of Yaroslav Hrytsak. Lesya Ukrainka depicted through the eyes of Oksana Zabuzhko. Yuri Andruhovych depicted through the eyes of Karl-Josef Zumbrunnen. The Maidan and post-revolutionary confusion, reconciliation with Poland and the war with Russia, Crimea and Donbas. This is an incomplete list of topics covered more or less in this collection of essays.

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Author Biography

Oleksandr Boichenko is a literary critic, essay writer, columnist, translator, and former teacher at the Faculty of World Literature and Literary Theory at Chernivtsi University. Between 2002 and 2010, together with writer Yuri Andrukhovych, Boichenko co-edited the contemporary literature online journal named Potiah76. Oleksandr Boichenko is a fellow of Gaude Polonia Scholarship granted by the Minister of Culture of the Republic of Poland (2005, 2008, 2013). In 2014, he was awarded A Medal for Merit to Polish Culture. In 2003, his book A Sort of Chautauqua (2003) won a top prize in the creative essay category in the Ukrainian competition Book of the Year. Among Boichenko’s books are: Chautauqua Plus (2005), To Have a Book (2011) Mine Among Strangers (2012), More or Less (2015), 50 Percent Rational (2016), and The Elimination Game (2022). Boichenko became a laureate of a prestigious Ukrainian prize in literature -Yuri Shevelov prize (2015). He also translates fiction and non-fiction from Polish and Russian into Ukrainian. Lives and works in Chernivtsi, Ukraine.

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  • Publisher 21-Publishers
  • Publication Date 2015
  • Orginal LanguageUkrainian
  • ISBN/Identifier 9786176140832
  • Publication Country or regionUkraine
  • Pages2015
  • ReadershipGeneral
  • Publish StatusPublished
  • Original Language TitleБільше/менше
  • Original Language AuthorsБойченко Олександр

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