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I (Romanticism): read in Ukrainian (C1)

Read Khvylovy’s 1924 novella I (Romanticism) in Ukrainian. Level C1: expressionist prose, revolutionary vocabulary and 1928 spelling, with word translation.

Я (Романтика) (Микола Хвильовий)

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Level C1 Reading focus

What you'll learn

Revolutionary and military vocabulary, lyrical imagery, elliptical expressionist syntax, first-person narration in present and past tense, 1920s Ukrainian spelling (инший, матери, -ости)

This article contains the full text of Mykola Khvylovy’s novella I (Romanticism) (1924), the confession of a Cheka commander in a besieged Ukrainian town during the Civil War, torn between the revolution and his mother. Level C1 suits readers who can follow fragmented, lyrical prose in Ukrainian. You will learn the vocabulary of revolution and war, and how the spelling of the 1920s differs from today’s.

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