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Read Kotsiubynsky’s novella Na viru in Ukrainian. Level B2: a village couple living together unwed, gossip and lively dialogue, with instant word translation.
Narrative past tense, free indirect speech, colloquial dialogue with idioms and proverbs, vocabulary of village life, matchmaking and church custom (старости, на віру, бараболя), older spellings such as зза for з-за, Ukrainian prose of the late 19th century
This article contains the full text of Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky’s novella Na viru (1892), about Hnat, an unhappily married villager in Podillia, and Nastia, the widow he loves, who decide to live together without a church wedding, на віру (“on trust”). Level B2 suits readers who can follow village dialogue and long descriptions in Ukrainian. You will learn the vocabulary of village life, family quarrels and church custom, and the older spellings of the 1955 edition.
