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Vocabulary of 1920s Soviet offices and city life (діловод, установа, місцком, радслужбовці), emotions and introspection, first-person past-tense narration, reported speech and dialogue, 1920s Ukrainian spelling (инший, иноді, -ости, провінціяльний)
This article contains the full text of Mykola Khvylovy’s novella A Sentimental Story (1928): a seventeen-year-old woman from the provinces comes to a big Soviet city, works as a typist and falls in love with a cold, evasive painter. Level C1 suits readers who can follow long narrated passages in Ukrainian. You will learn the vocabulary of 1920s offices and city life, and how the spelling of the 1920s differs from today’s.
