Beauty and Strength and Other Stories: read in Ukrainian (B2)
Read Vynnychenko’s first three stories in Ukrainian. Level B2: thieves, harvest hands and a steppe picnic, lively dialogue, instant word translation.
Краса і сила та інші оповідання (Володимир Винниченко)
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What you'll learn
Dialogue and colloquial speech, vocabulary of the small town, the fair and farm work (threshing, harvest), feelings and social contrasts, the narrative present, spoken verb forms (-всь, infinitives in -ть, short present forms like клаца), early 20th-century Ukrainian spelling (од- for від-, genitives in -ости, ґ in loanwords)
This article contains three complete stories by Volodymyr Vynnychenko, his first published prose (1902-1904): Beauty and Strength, By the Machine and Contrasts, about a love triangle among small-town thieves, a harvest day at a steam threshing machine, and a well-to-do picnic party that meets hungry farmhands on the steppe. Level B2 suits readers who follow fast dialogue in Ukrainian and can handle almost one long word in ten. You will learn everyday spoken Ukrainian and older forms such as одчепись, здригнувсь and смерти.
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