Повість про санаторійну зону (Микола Хвильовий)

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Level C1 Reading focus

What you'll learn

Vocabulary of illness and sanatorium life (хорий, лежанка, койка, палата, ординатор), landscape and weather description, 1920s political vocabulary (плебеї, інтелігенція, губздрав), word formation and compound adjectives (тиховійна, присмерковий), past-tense narration mixed with dialogue, 1920s Ukrainian spelling (инший, иноді, -ости, матеріял)

This article contains the full text of Mykola Khvylovy’s novella The Tale of the Sanatorium Zone (1924): in a sanatorium on the edge of a provincial town, a burnt-out former revolutionary, a mocking young woman and a nervous young writer watch a mysterious newcomer, the typesetter Karno, while summer turns into autumn. Level C1 suits readers who can follow long lyrical passages in Ukrainian. You will learn the vocabulary of illness, nature and the 1920s, and how the spelling of the 1920s differs from today’s.

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