The City: read in Ukrainian (C1)
Read Pidmohylny’s 1928 novel The City in Ukrainian. Level C1: 1920s Kyiv, essayistic prose, 1929 spelling and urban vocabulary, with word translation.
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Vocabulary of the city and 1920s institutions (інститут, редакція, Житлоспілка, Комгосп, непмани, українізація), abstract vocabulary of thought and feeling (свідомість, творчість, самотність), essayistic description and long complex sentences, past-tense narration mixed with dialogue, 1920s Ukrainian spelling (-ости, плян, лямпа, ґанок, мусів)
This article contains the full text of Valerian Pidmohylny’s novel The City (1928): Stepan Radchenko, a young man from the village, comes to Kyiv to study, lodges in a shed beside a fishmonger’s cowshed, passes the entrance exam, teaches Ukrainian, writes stories and gradually enters the literary life of the city. Level C1 suits readers who can follow long reflective prose in Ukrainian. You will learn the vocabulary of the city, of study, of literature and of 1920s institutions, and how the spelling of the 1920s differs from today’s.
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