The tale of a poet's tragicomic last days in Venice
What was the fate of Stanislav Perfetsky -- poet, provocateur,
and hero of Ukrainian underground culture? Certain evidence points
to suicide. But some whisper murder. Some suggest the grand Eastern
European tradition of coerced suicide. It may be related to the
religious cult ceremony he unluckily happened upon in Munich. . .
or that job as a dancer in a strip club for older women.
Or, then again, it may not.
Perverzion reconstructs Perfetsky's final days using a mishmash
of relics, from official documents to recorded interviews to scraps
of paper. Perfetsky, the personification of the Ukrainian artistic
superman (for example, he plays countless musical instruments so
well he collaborated with Elton John during the star's secret
sojourn in Ukraine), is bound for Venice to participate in a
seminar to save the world from its absurdity. On the way he becomes
a Ukrainian Orpheus, descending into the sophisticated decadence of
the West, navigating through surrealistic adventures and no less
surrealistic seminar topics as he charges head up (and pants down)
toward his fate.
A work of sly, subversive humor and fantastic wordplay,
Perverzion is a look into the new Ukraine's post-Soviet literary
culture by one of the country's foremost contemporary writers.
General
Imprint: |
Northwestern University Press
|
Country of origin: |
United States |
Series: |
Writings from an Unbound Europe |
Release date: |
April 2005 |
First published: |
April 2005 |
Authors: |
Yuri Andrukhovych
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Translators: |
Michael M. Naydan
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Dimensions: |
142 x 217 x 21mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
|
Pages: |
336 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-8101-1964-2 |
Categories: |
Books >
Social sciences >
General
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LSN: |
0-8101-1964-1 |
Barcode: |
9780810119642 |
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