Forgottenness

Time, in this novel, is a whale that swallows everything, levelling geniuses and failures, the noble and the criminal alike, and many remarkable Ukrainians have vanished into its belly. The forgotten figure at the centre here is Viacheslav Lypynskyi, a Ukrainian historian of Polish descent, philosopher, unsuccessful politician and the founder of Ukrainian monarchism, whose life was one long movement against the wind and a sacrifice for an idea. His story is told by a young woman, a contemporary narrator, who works through old newspapers to discover her own identity and to touch a past that was cut out of her history like frames from a film.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

249 pages in the original

Genres

Historical (assigned by AI)

First published

2016 by Видавництво Старого Лева

Author's age

33 when first published

ISBN

9786176793304 (original)

9781324093220 (Liveright, United States)

9781739842345 (Bullaun Press, Ireland)