In the Rye and Other Stories: read in Ukrainian (C1)
Read all 21 stories of Kosynka’s Selected Stories (1928) in Ukrainian. Level C1: civil-war village prose, 1920s speech and spelling.
В житах та інші оповідання (Григорій Косинка)
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Long lyrical sentences joined by dashes and ellipses, personified nature and sound words (дізік, Зз-уй!), village speech of the Middle Dnieper (це-ж, що-ж, од for від, одказав, оддай, салдат, short infinitives such as сказать, співать), political vocabulary of the 1920s (комнезам, продрозверстка, продналог, куркуль, анкета, кооператив), Russified and Russian speech of officers and agents (совєтской, вєрующі, сдєлать), 1928 spelling (иноді, инший, ніжности, Київа, мілійон)
This article contains the complete text of Hryhorii Kosynka’s book Selected Stories (Kyiv, 1928): twenty-one stories from «В житах», about a young deserter hiding in the rye, to «Оповідання без морали», set in Kyiv in 1919, including «Мати», «За ворітьми», «Анкета», «Політика» and «Циркуль». They show the Ukrainian village in the revolution, the civil war and the hungry early 1920s: insurgents, party organisers, committees of poor peasants, requisitions and drought. Level C1 suits readers who can follow long, image-laden sentences and village speech in Ukrainian. You will learn the rural and political vocabulary of the 1920s and how the spelling of that time differs from today’s.
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