Земля та інші оповідання (Василь Вражливий)

This article contains the complete text of Vasyl Vrazhlyvyi’s book The Land (Kharkiv, Knyhospilka, 1925): eight stories from «Земля», about a student arrested at a railway station who escapes into the night, to «Темрява», about a night raid on a rich farmer’s house, including «В ярах», «Роздоріжжя», «Паштетня», «Ліс», «Вовчі Байраки» and «На станції». They show Ukraine in the hungry early 1920s: landless peasants, hired farmhands, railway watchmen, beggars on a city rubbish dump, the old masters reinventing themselves under the New Economic Policy. Level C1 suits readers who can follow dense, image-laden description and village and city speech in Ukrainian. You will learn the rural and institutional vocabulary of the 1920s and how the spelling of 1921 differs from today’s.