Studi Slavistici VIII • 2011
Materiali e discussioni

Neue Heimat <em>Vorošylovgrad</em>? Žadans poetische Ost-Ukraine

Published 2012-01-24

How to Cite

Kratochvil, A. (2012). Neue Heimat <em>Vorošylovgrad</em>? Žadans poetische Ost-Ukraine. Studi Slavistici, 8(1), 221–229. https://doi.org/10.13128/Studi_Slavis-10530

Abstract

The latest novel, Vorošylovhrad, by Ukrainian writer Serhij Žadan takes the reader to an East-Ukrainian post-totalitarian landscape and reveals a special Žadan-like geo-poetic (e.g. in comparison with the Galizian geo-poetic of Jurij Andruxovyč). Unlike his previous novel, Depeche Mode, it is not only a story about the hero’s journey through a devastated post-Soviet landscape, i.e. a metaphorical reflection of the search for one’s own past, but as well a story about finding a way to remember this past. The ability to remember the past offers a way out of the state of transcendental and real homelessness (the story ends with a budding love-story, a novum in Žadan’s prose).