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Notes of a Snub-Nosed Mephistopheles: read in Ukrainian (C1)
Read Vynnychenko’s novel Notes of a Snub-Nosed Mephistopheles in Ukrainian. Level C1: a cynical Kyiv lawyer’s diary of love, fatherhood and guilt, word translation.
Present-tense narration and inner monologue, vocabulary of the city, the courts, family and feelings, moral and psychological argument, colloquial dialogue, Russian and Church Slavonic quotations, early 20th-century Ukrainian spelling (инший, ріжні, ґ, genitives in -ости)
This article contains the complete novel Notes of a Snub-Nosed Mephistopheles (1917) by Volodymyr Vynnychenko, the present-tense diary of Yakiv Mykhailiuk, a prosperous Kyiv lawyer who prides himself on his cynicism until a friend’s wife tells him her son is his, and a love affair turns into a question of fatherhood. Level C1 suits readers who can handle more than one long word in ten and enjoy psychological prose. You will learn the urban vocabulary of educated Kyiv before the First World War, the language of moral argument and older forms such as инший, ріжні and радости.
