The Tears and Smiles of Things: Stories, Sketches, Meditations by Andriy Sodomor

Description: The Tears and Smiles of Things by Andriy Sodomora, Roman Ivashkiv, Sabrina Jaszi, Markiyan Dombrovskyi An evocative collection of vignettes and essays from Ukraines "voice" of classical antiquity, now available in English for the first time.Inspired by Virgils exquisitely ambivalent phrase "sunt lacrimae rerum" (there are tears of/for/in things), Andriy Sodomora, the Ukrainian "voice" of classical antiquity, has produced a series of original vignettes and essays about things: the big things in our lives (like happiness, loneliness, and aging); the small things we do or see daily, rarely paying attention to them (like a trees shadow or the kernels on an ear of corn); and the things (i.e., objects) to which we form connections. The selected stories presented here are the first English translations of Sodomoras profoundly intellectual and intertextual prose. Through his nostalgic memories and recollections, Sodomora takes readers on a journey through western Ukraine, as well as through world literature, from ancient Greece and Rome to the poetry of Paul Verlaine and Federico Garca Lorca.This book has been published with the support of the TranslateUkraine Translation Program. FORMAT Hardcover CONDITION Brand New Author Biography Andriy Sodomorais a Ukrainian translator, writer, and professor of Classics at the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, Ukraine. His translation oeuvre includes an astounding number of volumes from ancient Greek and Roman authors. At the age of 85, Sodomora remains extremely prolific, successfully combining translation and creative writing.Roman Ivashkivis Assistant Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Alabama. He researches transmesis (i.e., fictional representation of translation and translators) in contemporary Ukrainian literature. With Canadian writer Ern Moure, he published an English translation of the Ukrainian writer Yuri Izdryks poetry collection entitledSmokes(2019).Sabrina Jasziis a writer and literary translator. She co-founded Turkoslavia, a translators collective and journal of Turkic and Slavic literature. Her translations include the works of Reed Grachev, Otkir Hoshimov, Nadezhda Teffi, Alisa Ganieva, and Semyon Lipkin.Markiyan Dombrovskyiis a Ukrainian classical philologist at the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv. He researches classical literature (works on Latin elegy, especially Tibullus, Greek epigram etc), as well as Neo-Latin epigraphy in Ukraine. He also translates early modern Ukrainian historical sources written in Latin. Table of Contents About the AuthorIntroduction: Old Wine in the Evening Sunlight, by Markian DombrovskyiTranslators IntroductionsA Note on TranslationThe Tears and Smiles of Things: Stories, Sketches, MeditationsIn Lieu of a Preface: People amidst Things"Carpe Diem"The MittenA Room without ShadowsThe Silver-Haired WindIn the Language of RainThe Felled ShadowThe World between the WindowpanesThe OwlAt the IntersectionThe WhirligigPraesens HistoricumThe FluteThe MoodVigilate!Rainy Landscape with the CatDead SilenceThe Rainbow over VyrivA Jug of Wild StrawberriesThe GardenThe CredenzaThe StringCornMamas SmileThe DanceNotesGlossaryAcknowledgementsAbout the Translators Details ISBN Author Markiyan Dombrovskyi Publisher Academic Studies Press Format Hardcover Pages 132 Series Ukrainian Studies Year 2024 Translator Sabrina Jaszi ISBN-13 9798887194370 Imprint Academic Studies Press Place of Publication Brighton Country of Publication United States Audience General Subtitle Stories, Sketches, Meditations AU Release Date 2024-05-21 Publication Date 2024-02-22 US Release Date 2024-02-22 Alternative 9798887194387 Illustrations Illustrations We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:159690039;

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