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Ivan Ivanovych and Other Stories: read in Ukrainian (C1)
Read Khvylovy’s Ivan Ivanovych (1929) and four more stories in Ukrainian. Level C1: Soviet satire, 1930 spelling and 1920s words, with word translation.
Іван Іванович та інші оповідання (Микола Хвильовий)
Soviet political and bureaucratic vocabulary of the 1920s (комосередок, комхоз, трест, колеґія, непманка, ревізор), irony and officialese (симпатичний, зразковий, так би мовити), long compound adjectives (монументально-реалістичний, робітничо-селянський), village speech and civil-war vocabulary (дячок, розправа, незаможниця, партизани), everyday life of the period (кватира, примус, кооп), narration mixed with dialogue, 1920s Ukrainian spelling (ґ in loanwords, соціяльний, матеріяльний, єсть, мойого)
This article contains five complete stories by Mykola Khvylovy from volume III of his Works (1930): the satire «Іван Іванович» (1929), about a model party official and his “new communist way of life”; «Мати», «Бандити» and «Наречений», set in the civil war; and «Ревізор», about a provincial reporter waiting for an inspector from the capital. Level C1 suits readers who can follow long ironic sentences in Ukrainian. You will learn the political and everyday vocabulary of the 1920s and how the spelling of that time differs from today’s.
