My Final Territory: Selected Essays - Hardcover

Andrukhovych, Yuri

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1487501714 ISBN 13: 9781487501716

Publisher: University of Toronto Press, 2018

Synopsis

Yuri Andrukhovych is one of Ukraine’s preeminent authors and cultural commentators. In recognition of his literary writings and his role as public intellectual he has received numerous awards including the Herder Prize, Hannah Arendt Prize, and the Goethe Medal.

My Final Territory is a collection of Andrukhovych’s philosophical, autobiographical, political, and literary essays, which demonstrate his enormous talent as an essayist to the English-speaking world. This volume broadens Andrukhovych’s international audience and will create a dialogue with Anglophone readers throughout the world in a number of fields including philosophy, history, journalism, political science, sociology,  and anthropology. In their introduction Michael Naydan and Mark Andryczyk reveal a somewhat lesser-known side of Andrukhovych’s writings that place him alongside such writers as recent Belarusian Nobel Prize winner Svetlana Alexievich. Ten of the twelve essays in this volume, including his seminal work “Central-Eastern Revision,” are appearing for the first time in English. My Final Territory showcases Yuri Andrukhovych’s unique voice and provides insight into Ukrainian experience of nationality and identity.

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About the Author

Yuri Andrukhovych is one of Ukraine’s preeminent authors and cultural commentators.
Mark Andryczyk obtained his PhD in Ukrainian Language and Literature from the University of Toronto.
Michael M. Naydan is Woskob Family Professor of Ukrainian Studies at The Pennsylvania State University.

Review

"Combining playful memoir writing, history, fiction, and travelogue, My Final Territory gathers Andrukhovych’s best essays from 1996 to 2011, highlighting his views of Galicia, Lviv, Kyiv, and attitudes toward Poles, Russians, and the Soviet past. Most importantly, Andrukhovych is concerned with questions of identity, their complexity and the whimsical grounds on which they are constructed.

This translation of My Final Territory captures Andrukhovych’s ‘lightness of touch’ admirably. The English-language reader learns much about Ukraine that will be novel, eye-opening, and inspiring. This is the most valuable achievement of the collection. It allows the reader to hear and see from the perspective of an outstanding contemporary Ukrainian writer and intellectual who engages with the opinions about his country held by others."

(Myroslav Shkandrij, Department of Slavic Studies, University of Manitoba)

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1487501714
• ISBN 13: 9781487501716
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 208