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Sophia Karaffa-Korbut`s cover for “Fox Mykyta” by Ivan Franko, 1973
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надія - мій поводир - Hope is my guide
“Навіть у найтемнішу годину життя завжди є надія. Надія – це світло, що провадить нас крізь темряву, дозволяючи бачити можливості та можливості, які відкриваються перед нами.”
Іван Франко (1856-1916) – український поет, письменник, драматург, перекладач, лінгвіст, літературний критик та політичний діяч. Його вважають однією з найважливіших постатей української літератури і часто називають…
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What Ukrainian books would you recommend to a complete beginner? Someone who has no idea of Ukrainian literature but wants to support Ukraine.
Sorry in advance for answering so late!
If I had to recommend one single book, it would probably be Tiger Trappers (sometimes translated as The Hunters and the Hunter or Tiger Catchers) by Ivan Bagriany. It is a partially autobiographic adventure novel set in the 30s about a man who escapes the NKVD imprisonment and attempts to survive in the harsh Syberian taiga with a family of ukrainian settlers living there while running for his life from the state.
If you're interested in poetry, my #1 recommendation in Serhiy Zhadan. Out of modern authors I also recommend Oksana Zabuzhko
If you want to read our classical literature, the most Iconique (tm) authors are Taras Shevchenko, Ivan Franko and Lesya Ukrainka. The level of enjoyment you might get out of them will vary greatly depending on the translation. Unfortunately, one major issue that exists with ukrainian literature is that translations of modern authors are more easily avaliable than those of the older ones.
Some of these books and more are linked in my masterpost document on ukrainian resources
There is also a lithub article with some recommendations, but out of those I've only read The Moscoviad and I probably won't recommend this book as the one to make your first impression about ukrainian literature.
#response#ukrainian literature#book recommendations#i'm so sorry :((( all my favourite ukrainian books are not translated into english :(((#if you'll invest into learning ukrainian read хіба ревуть воли як ясла повні and тореадори із васюківки and сад гетсиманський#бо це розйоб
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Copperdale Academy of Lev I
I finally collected all the CC used in the build. Some of it is included in the archive with building, for other you have to check Word file. And please, don't be scared when you'll see 10 pages of mods (I know it's kind of TOO MUCH). I separated them on 2 groups: mods for facade and mods for interior. So if you don't want to download all CC, you can chose only mods for proper look of the facade.
There's also a huge possibility that I forgot to specify some mods, mostly Felixandre's, because I got confused in the items scattered on a bunch of sets. But if you are the same building maniac who loves historical styles and has their content, then you should not have any problems with it c:
Original building is the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv
Get this hight school for your Copperdale here (always FREE)
P.S. If you just wanna know where to get any piece of CC from the screenshots, don't be afraid to ask~
Credits:
School uniform for male and female by Gorilla Gorilla Gorilla
Private school deco sims by The Devilliers
Silent Hill Reshade 3.0 Preset for TS4 by fuchsiateasims (for me works with 4.7)
Other CC by @felixandresims @thejim07 @syboubou @annadedanann @artyssims @cliffou29 @the-regal-sim @lilis-palace @kerriganhouse @pinkbox-anye @sims4luxury miljamaison @strangestorytellersims @sundays-sims @hydrangeachainsaw @tinywardens @soloriya @anachrosims @remussirion @thesensemedieval
#sims#the sims#sims 4#the sims 4#ts4#the sims 4 historical#ts4 historical#the sims 4 lots#the sims 4 build#sims 4 build#sims 4 lots#sims 4 high school years#ts4 high school years#sims 4 dark academia#dark academia#dark academic aesthetic#dark acadamia aesthetic#ukrainian architecture#lviv#lviv ukraine#my sims buildings
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Hryhorii Kvitka-Osnovianenko's The Witch of Konotop, Ivan Franko National Academic Drama Theatre (2023)
#ukraine#ukrainian theatre#kyiv#The Witch of Konotop#Конотопська відьма#Григорій Квітка-Основ'яненко#ua theater
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Hey, I read your post about the difference between Ukrainian and russian literature, with a couple of quotes that looked really promising. Could you tell me what books or poems was quoted? And if you have the will, could you list Ukrainian literature references? I know Russian invested a lot to get their literature translated and I think it is time we make Ukrainian literature more known.
Hi! Thank you for the ask. I suppose you’re talking about this post, so here are the quotes mentioned in it, as well some links to Ukrainian literature.
“Ти знаєш, що ти людина” means “Do you know that you are human”. It’s from a poem by a Ukrainian poet Vasyl Symonenko (full English translation here). In the USSR, a human was just a screw in the system, easily replaceable. The Soviets didn’t care about individual people, only about the whole. You were supposed to die for the sake of the system if need be. And Symonenko’s poem is the opposite. It reminds us that each of us unique, that every human deserves happiness and freedom. The poet died after he was beaten up by the local militsya.
“Тварь ли я дрожащая или право я имею» is something like “Am I a trembling beast or do I have the right” is a quote from Raskolnikov, the protagonist of “Crime and Punishment” by russian writer Dostoyevsky. Raskolnikov says this as he thinks he has more rights than others and is superior to them. He divides humanity in two categories: those who have the right (who don’t need to care about laws and rules) and “trembling beasts” (who must be slaves).
“Борітеся й поборете” means “Keep fighting — you are sure to win!” It is from a poem “Caucasus” by Taras Shevchenko, the most famous Ukrainian poet. Full english translation. At the time of the writing, the russian empire was at war in the Caucasus region. Russia said that this war is actually needed to give the locals “the civilisation”, “russian laws” etc. Shevchenko gives a satirical characterisation of the empire and calls out against the war. He also encourages the locals to fight with the quote above, because “the right is on their side”.
Another writer who described the russian war in Caucasus is a famous and largely celebrated russian poet Mikhail Lermontov and his poem “Izmail Bey”. “Пускай я раб, но раб царя вселенной” - “Maybe I’m a slave, but I’m the slave of the ruler of the world”. Ah yes, the mysterious russian soul. No wonder they don’t protest.
Lermontov also wrote a poem glorifying a gang rape by the military. Here’s a video with English subtitles about Lermontov and what the hell was that poem (TW for the poem. 18+)
Ukrainian literature was always about fight for freedom, because that’s what our people always wanted more than anything. Meanwhile russian literature justifies imperialism all the time.
Links to translations of Ukrainian literature (for free!)
I am (romance) by Mykola Khvyliovyi, a psychological novel about Bolshevik revolution
Forest song (english, polish) by Lesia Ukrainka, a drama about mythological creatures in a Ukrainian forest
The city(part 1, part 2)by Valerian Pidmohylnyi, an urban novel. Recreates the atmosphere of Kyiv
Eneida by Ivan Kotliarevskyi is a parody of the classic poem where the Greek heroes are Ukrainian cossacks, describing Ukrainian customs and traditions
Zakhar Berkut by Ivan Franko is a historical novel about the struggle of ancient Carpathian communities against the Mongol invasion
Enchanted Desna by Oleksandr Dovzhenko is a cinematic novel that consists of short stories about the daily life of the author as a child in a Ukrainian village.
Tiger Trappers by Ivan Bahrianyi - a story of a political prisoner who escaped Gulag and lives in taiga with local hunters. One of my personal favourites.
Poems and stories by Ivan Franko
Contemporary Ukrainian literature in English (not for free)
What we live for, what we die for by Serhiy Zhadan - selected poems by a Ukrainian musician and poet
Apricots of Donbas by Lyuba Yakimchuk - about the East of Ukraine
The voices of Babyn Yar by Marianna Kiyanovska about the history of Babyn Yar in Kyiv
Life went on anyway by Oleg Sentsov, who was kidnapped from his home in the occupied Crimea and forced to go through a russian military trial
Fieldwork in Ukrainian sex by Oksana Zabuzhko
Also here you can buy a book “Torture camp on paradise street” by Stanislav Aseyev, who survived a russian concentration camp and described what it was like.
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Homework for college. drew an illustration based on the book "Painted Fox". Author Ivan Franko
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fics that are currently In Progress:
jamie did a bad bad thing
"couples try new things" (this fic has been going since the summer...franko thinks christine is cheating on him even while he is cheating on her, and mason feels bad for him (this makes me, the author, laugh...i think obvious hypocrisy is very comical in fics) and so wants to make him feel better, and frank discusses something...Unexpected to mason) (side note: i think franko is the only footballer whose wag is mentioned in like, every single fic i write and has since the beginning of time, wtf)
anthony gordon post england callup dubcon phonesex fic
VERY vaguely sketched out--everton australian winter tour, anthony's hand is in a cast and he needs help jerking off
weird 2010 lampardverse mindfuck fic...don't know what to do with this one and if i can't figure out how to write Uhhh a certain type of porn then the ending won't work and i love the ending lol. (also i want to do it)
dangerous au next chapters, don't know how to structure these bc it's one massive flashback to granit's first times in london
revenge pegging...someday i'll finish it
there's also: frankenstein au, 10022, franko and jamie go clubbing after mum's death + OFCs, i want to write something more in the ivan + gudeljs vein...my envied lady (weird frank sr fic) i almost feel like this should be a collab cause i want to write it and the little intro i have is hot but i don't know HOW
#fic saga#this all is such a mess#honestly bitter mutual cheating/couples try new things should be the easiest to finish
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Why I translate Ukraine’s silenced poets
For Russians, good or bad, the war and Ukraine are usually all about them. That is why now, more than ever, we must work to recover Ukrainian culture as a whole from its marginalization.
by Stephen Komarnyckyj
I first visited Ukraine, a country I had always thought of as my country, in 1992 after my Aunt had returned from Komi in North Russia to her homeland. It was very different from the country of my Ukrainian textbooks, with a Cossack astride a rearing horse on the front cover or Ivan Franko and Taras Shevchenko staring sombrely at the reader.
The Ukrainian nationals on the flight were at the back of the plane. I was near the front, my Saturday School Ukrainian, which I had learned badly, inadequate for communication. My supposedly fellow Ukrainians were foreign to me, and I to them.
After we landed, I found a bookshop that had no Ukrainian books at all. I asked where they were. There was an empty bookshelf labeled Ukrainian literature behind a cord to stop readers from approaching.
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"The Witch of Konotop".
Grigory Fedorovich Kvitka-Osnovyanenko.
Theater named after Ivan Franko. Kyiv.
#art#artwork#theatre#kyiv#kyiv ukraine#witch#mystery#female artists#artistic process#coquette#beauty#poetry#ukraine#ukranian#ukrart
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Pavlo Kovzhun`s cover for From the Days of Sorrow by Ivan Franko, 1922
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надія - мій поводир - Hope is my guide
“Навіть у найтемнішу годину життя завжди є надія. Надія – це світло, що провадить нас крізь темряву, дозволяючи бачити можливості та можливості, які відкриваються перед нами.”
Іван Франко (1856-1916) – український поет, письменник, драматург, перекладач, лінгвіст, літературний критик та політичний діяч. Його вважають однією з найважливіших постатей української літератури і часто називають…
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What are some amazing, most read Ukraine authors? The only one I know is Gogol and I would like more on my radar.
First important disclaimer is that without knowing ukrainian, your pool of choice is very limited. Unfortunately, our translators haven't done nearly enough to make ukrainian literature acessable for english speakers, so a lot of genuinely amazing stuff would require you to know the language.
The second important disclaimer is that I am going to recommend you a lot of poetry, and, with no disrespect to the translators, it doesn't hit nearly as hard in english as it is in ukrainian. I've recently heard the phrase "to read poetry in translation is like to take a shower wearing a raincoat", and it is so true. So, apologies for this barrier, but there is nothing one can do.
With that in mind, let's start from classics:
The first most important author is Taras Shevchenko. He mainly wrote poetry, but has some prose works as well, and during his life he was more known as a popular artist. The Bible of his works is Kobzar (a ukrainian word for travelling blind musicians), and the same word is also often used as a nickname for Shevchenko - akin to how Shakespeare can be called the Bard. Among the most important poems pay attention to A Dream (the poem for which he was imprisoned by the russians with an explicit ban on writing and painting), The Caucasus, My Testament, Kateryna, A cherry orchad by the house, О thoughts of mine
The second big name to know is Lesya Ukrainka. Lesya is also more known for her drama and poetry than her prose, but she also was a prolific translator and a feminist. Her most well-know play is The Forest Song (a cartoon adaptation is soon to be released after 7 years of production, but from the trailer it looks like it's not going to be close to the text). I find her Бояриня play to be much more interesting and relevant, however, it looks like it has not been translated yet. Among her poems, some of the most important are Contra Spem Spero and Cassandra (the latter has had some successful stage prouctions in Great Britain last year, mayhaps it will gain popularity)
Some links to her works: [x] [x]
Fun fact: there are speculations about Lesya Ukrainka's relationship with her close friend Olga Kobylyanska. The letters they exchanged are quite intimate and sometimes even erotic in nature, which lead some academics to believe that they were more than friends (most still fall in the "gal pals" camp tho). However, if that were true, that would mean that Lesya Ukrainka is the only bisexual woman to ever be printed on banknotes.
The third pillar of ukrainian classical literature is Ivan Franko. Once again, we are talking about partiotic poetry, but there are also many socialistic ideas in his works (although he became dissilusioned with it in his later years ), which I think many western readers will find appealing - (side comment - it looks like "collective west" is going through the same processses that we overcame a century ago, so ehm... good luck, y'all will need it). I haven't been able to find much of his works translated in English, so here is a good master page. Zakhar Berkut is considered to be one of his greatest works (a ukrainian-american co-production movie The Rising Hawk was released a couple of years ago, it was shit). If you manage to put your hands on it, I would greatly recommend The Painted Fox and Moses. Also, reading Eternal Revolutionary imprinted on me so much in childhood and determined who I grew up to be, I pretty much consider Franko to be my spiritual father.
A great event that happened this year is that Valeryan Pidmohylny's The City is finally getting an english translation. I have been gushing about this book on this blog before (you can also find the link to the publisher there), because for the archetypical ukrainian literature this book is a breath of fresh air. It's beautiful, it's modern, it's urbanistic, the protagonist is irredeemable asshole, it's amazing and I should re-read it as well.
Among the authors that are much more difficult to find, I greatly recommend Ivan Nechu-Levytsky. In my humble opinion, he like no other has managed to capture the "ukrainian spirit" and his plots are extremely captivating and dramatic as hell.
I will always, always add Ivan Bahryiany to my lists of ukrainian "must reads". He is an author of the first ever ukrainian adventure novel Tiger Trappers/The Hunters and the Hunted, which is the book that is loved even by those who don't like ukrainian literature. However, I personally find his Garden of Gethsemane to be a much more important (but take care, it is much more depressing as well). This author is extremely important, but I struggle finding PDFs of his work - perhaps, you'd have to search the libraries or ukr diaspora publishers for paperbacks. I have also been unsuccessfully hunting for an english translation of Why I am not going back to the Soviet Union? pamphlet for years - and I know for sure it exists because the USA first lady at that time has read it and it influenced her opinion on the USSR - but I've had no luck so far.
Another very important author of the same time period is Mykola Khyvylovy. One of his plays has actually been recently put to stage in English (shamefully, I haven't watched it yet, but I can vouch for the text it was based on - it's brutal).
I can't speak about ukrainian literature without mentioning crimean tatars, and although their works are much, much less known (in Ukraine as well, unfortunately), please do not overlook it. It is a gorgeous culture, and reading it, I grew to love and value Crimea so much even without ever visiting it. There are some english translations avaliable, including those of Noman Çelebicihan - an extermely important figure in Crimean Tatar history, the founder of the unfortunately short-lived Crimean Democratic Republic, the author of their national anthem, and overall very influential revolutionary.
Now let's jump to the popular modern authors. Many don't have english translation, but the problem is much less prominent in comparison to the ukrainian classics. With these authors, you shouldn't have trouble with finding paperbacks. Among the most influential authors I can recommend Serhiy Zhadan (Timothy Snyder has once said that he expects Zhadan to receive a Nobel Prize in literature and I agree), Oksana Zabuzhko (she either aught to release soon or has already released an english-exclusive book about the russian-ukrainian war), Yuri Izdryk (extremely modern and unconventional, but he's a good represention of the current state of art), Yuriy Andrukhovych (love his mastery of language, hate his characters). These authors are more light-hearted, but a grim necessity for today is Stanislav Aseyev's The Torture Camp on Paradise Street. It is a autobilgraphical book describing his experience being imprisoned by russians between 2017 and 2019. Western journalism often describes the war crimes russians commit on our land, but just listing the number of people lost doesn't show the face of the russian horror. Read this book to understand why we were screaming about the russian threat before the full-scale invasion, and why every time we regain the territory we brace with terror of what we'll discover there - because everywhere russian army goes, they build hunderds of such Isolyatsya camps that the book describes.
Also check out Serhiy Zhadan's band!
#response#ukraine#ukrainian literature#thank you for this question this is much more fun to talk about than the usual topics on this blog
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modern!au Taras Shevchenko and Ivan Franko
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My next post in support of Ukraine is:
Next site, Ivan Franko Park in Lviv, Lviv Oblast. The park was first established at the end of the 18th century, and it was redesigned as a landscape park in 1855. It's the oldest park in the country. There's also a monument to Ivan Franko in the park. Ivan Yakovych Franko was a Ukrainian poet and writer, and also several other things, including being a journalist and political activist. He also wrote the first detective novels in the Ukrainian language.
#StandWithUkraine
#СлаваУкраїні 🇺🇦🌻
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tagged by @tolovaj :з
last song: obsession by endless dismal moan
favorite color: red
currently watching: mold grow on walls
last movie: an old turkish film about guest workers in germany, i dont know the title... but i would say maybe 70s or 80s production.
currently reading: collection of ukrainian lit by ivan franko
sweet/spicy/savory: savory
relationship status: in a psychosexual e-relationship with my tumblr mutuals
current obsession(s): animal coloration genetics and environmental factors, i am reading about snail shells.
last thing i googled: "краєзнавчий музей тернопіль"
currently working on: an art project on ukrainian folk costume that i will post on here
tagging @disintegratingeros @ikonofilizm @uhranuta @blazenek @tyaz @zhabk4 @akkawi @thepentangle @informationhazard
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