The Journey of the Learned Doctor Leonardo: read in Ukrainian (C1)
Read Yohansen’s 1928 novel in Ukrainian: a doctor, a beauty and a narrator who plays with the reader on the Donets. Level C1, 1928 Kharkiv spelling.
Подорож ученого доктора Леонардо (Майк Йогансен)
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What you'll learn
Long periodic sentences with conditionals and asides in dashes (коли б вона була живою, реальною бабою), adverbial participles (одкидаючися, підстеливши, лоскочучи), a narrator who addresses the reader (уявіть собі, аморальний читач), river, forest and bird vocabulary of Slobozhanshchyna (нетеча, плесо, латаття, очерет, щурка, синьовуд, чапля), mock-learned vocabulary (апокрифічний, алгебраїчний, стерилізується), Russified rural speech (понімають, бамажна хвабрика), Kharkiv spelling of 1928 (подорожи, любови, радости, инший, одповів, ініціялів, проєкт)
This article contains the complete text of Maik Yohansen’s experimental novel «Подорож ученого доктора Леонардо і його майбутньої коханки прекрасної Альцести у Слобожанську Швайцарію», as first printed in the Kharkiv almanac «Літературний ярмарок» in 1928: a parody of the travel novel in which the learned doctor Leonardo and the beautiful Alcesta sail down the Donets into the wooded hills near Zmiiv, while the narrator invents characters, dismisses them and argues with his reader. Level C1 suits readers who can follow long, playful sentences in Ukrainian. You will learn the landscape, river and bird vocabulary of Slobozhanshchyna and how the spelling of 1928 differs from today’s.
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