株式会社極東書店トップ ＞ 商品一覧 ＞ The Length of Days: An Urban Ballad.
商品詳細
The Length of Days: An Urban Ballad.
・ISBN 978-0-674-29121-8 paper US$ 19.95
￥4,673.- (税込) ※（※）価格はご注文時の参考価格となります。
納品価格につきましては書籍の入荷時点で確定となります。
版元の原価改定、外国為替の変動等により異なる場合がございますので、予めご了承下さい。
| 著者・編者 | Rafeyenko, Volodymyr, |
|---|---|
| シリーズ | (Harvard Library of Ukrainian Literature) |
| 出版社 | (Harvard University Press, US) |
| 出版年月 | 2023 |
| ページ数 | 352 pp. |
| 言語 | ENG |
| ニュース番号 | ＜A00-37329＞ |
解説
The Length of Days: An Urban Ballad is set mostly in the composite Donbas city of Z-an uncanny foretelling of what this letter has come to symbolize since February 24, 2022, when Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Several embedded narratives attributed to an alcoholic chemist-turned-massage therapist give insight into the funny, ironic, or tragic lives of people who remained in the occupied Donbas after Russia's initial aggression in 2014.
With elements of magical realism, Volodymyr Rafeyenko's novel combines a wicked sense of humor with political analysis, philosophy, poetry, and moral interrogation. Witty references to popular culture-Ukrainian and European-underline the international and transnational aspects of Ukrainian literature. The novel ends on the hopeful note that even death cannot have the final word: the resilient inhabitants of Z grow in power through reincarnation.