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Lina Kostenko's Marusia Churai: a Song on Trial (C2)

A C2 Ukrainian reading on Lina Kostenko's verse novel Marusia Churai: the Poltava legend, the trial, the pardon, the pilgrimage and her years unpublished.

Суд над піснею: «Маруся Чурай» Ліни Костенко

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Level C2 Reading focus

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literary criticism vocabulary, analysing a literary work, expressing interpretation and hypothesis, complex syntax, participle and adverbial participle phrases

A C2 Ukrainian reading text about Lina Kostenko's historical novel in verse Marusia Churai (1979): the legend of a 17th-century Poltava songwriter, her trial, the pardon brought by Ivan Iskra and her pilgrimage to Kyiv. It also covers the years when Kostenko was barely published and the 1987 Shevchenko Prize. The text ends with questions about the artist and the community.

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