Im in a binge reading mode now: short stories by the Serbian writer Srđan Srdić (in Ukrainian; so gloomy that the reality feels a lot less gloomy, which is good); Yakovs Head by Lyubko Deresh (in Ukrainian, obviously; bought it here in Moscow, at the Ukrainian Cultural Centers bookstore on Staryi Arbat; just started reading it - interesting how Kyiv feels like Hades to someone from Lviv - then again, after Srdić, these descriptions of Hades by Deresh seem rather positive); The Bridge over the Drina by Ivo Andrić (in English; started reading it back in September, determined to finish the novel this time; re-read the chapter that seems most poignant to me so far, about Georg Fedun, a young Ukrainian/Austro-Hungarian soldier from Kolomyia, who happened to be guarding the Bridge in early spring, fell in love, absent-mindedly let a fugitive criminal pass through, chose to kill himself instead of facing a military court). A few more books here and there. One of them is on PTSD.
Posted on: Wed, 02 Apr 2014 01:41:32 +0000
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