“Re-creating” Tadeusz Konwicki’s Fiction: Little Apocalypse and Yurii Andrukhovych’s Moscoviada Cover Image

„Re-kreacje” prozy Tadeusza Konwickiego w twórczości Jurija Andruchowycza. Mała apokalipsa a Moscoviada
“Re-creating” Tadeusz Konwicki’s Fiction: Little Apocalypse and Yurii Andrukhovych’s Moscoviada

Author(s): Urszula Pieczek
Subject(s): Recent History (1900 till today), Ukrainian Literature, History of Communism
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: metaphorical translation; empire; Ukrainian literature; communism;

Summary/Abstract: On the basis of a comparative analysis of the worlds presented in Moscoviada by Yurii Andrukhovych and in the Little Apocalypse by Tadeusz Konwicki the article demonstrates the meaning of “metaphorical translation.” Using the category proposed by Joseph Brodsky, the author of the article shows how similar characters, who search for their identities, are presented in both books.

  • Issue Year: 2017
  • Issue No: 33
  • Page Range: 21-46
  • Page Count: 26
  • Language: Polish