- BBC Ukrainian Book of the Year 2010 · Shortlist
Дрозофіла над томом Канта
Drozofila nad tomom Kanta
“A Fruit Fly over a Volume of Kant” (title translated by AI)
Anatoliy Dnistrovyi (Анатолій Дністровий, born 1974)
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A Ukrainian intellectual lives in a state of not yet being born: he does not know what to live for and drifts with the current of joy and anxiety, love and despair. Aware of this, he feels unhappy. He waits for great changes but senses none coming, and neither love affairs nor intellectual searching bring him peace of mind. The setting is the Kyiv world of humanities scholars and lecturers at the end of the 1990s, with its poor education, provincialism, corruption and imitation of scholarship. The image of a fruit fly that lives a single day on decay stands for this rootless life. But the hero has a woman to whom he keeps confessing.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 146 pages in the original
- Set in
- Ukraine, late 1990s
- First published
- 2010 by Піраміда
- Author's age
- 36 when first published
- ISBN
9789664411803 (original)
- More
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