Oksana Zabuzhko
Born
in Lutsk, Ukraine
September 19, 1960
Website
Genre
Influences
Fieldwork in Ukrainian Sex
39 editions
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1996
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The Museum of Abandoned Secrets
29 editions
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2009
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Найдовша подорож
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7 editions
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2022
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Planeta Piołun
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3 editions
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2020
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Як рубали вишневий сад, або Довга дорога з Бад-Емсу
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2021
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Казка про калинову сопілку
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3 editions
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2000
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"І знов я влізаю в танк…". Вибрані тексти 2012–2016: Статті, есе, інтерв’ю, спогади.
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2016
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Your Ad Could Go Here: Stories
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9 editions
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2014
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Сестро, Сестро: Повісті та Оповідання
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2003
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Notre Dame d’Ukraine: Українка в конфлікті міфологій
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3 editions
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2007
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“Taking cruelty for strength is the most common mistake of youth. Youth only knows life by the intensity of its own feelings—a continuous explosive fortissimo with a foot on the pedal. Youth knows nothing of that supreme sensitivity, the true sensitivity of the strong that denies cruelty; youth has no inkling of the force with which a barely audible pianissimo can strike under your heart.”
― The Museum of Abandoned Secrets
― The Museum of Abandoned Secrets
“Where exactly does it come from, I’d like to know, this ineradicable attitude of superiority toward the past? This stubbornly dumb, can’t-kill-it-with-an-ax conviction that we, the now, critically and categorically know better than they, the past. Is it from the mere fact that their future is known to us, that we know what happens? (Nothing good.) It’s much the way we treat small children— pedantic and permissive at the same time. And we always think of the people of the past — just as we do of children — as being naïve in everything from their clothes and hairstyles to their thoughts and feelings.”
― The Museum of Abandoned Secrets
― The Museum of Abandoned Secrets
“That's what we've been taught, this is the underpinning of all European culture-this firm belief that there are no secrets that won't sooner or later come to light. Who was it that said it? Jesus? No, Pascal, I think it was… so naïve. But this faith has been nurtured for centuries; it has sprouted its own mythology: the cranes of Ibycus, manuscripts don't burn. An ontological faith in the fundamental knowability of every human deed. The certainty that, as they now teach journalism majors, you can find everything on the Internet.
As if the Library of Alexandria never existed. Or the Pogruzhalsky arson, when the whole historical section of the Academy of Sciences' Public Library, more than six-hundred thousand volumes, including the Central Council archives from 1918, went up in flames. That was in the summer of 1964; Mom was pregnant with me already, and almost for an entire month afterward, as she made her way to work at the Lavra, she would get off the trolleybus when it got close to the university and take the subway the rest of the way: above ground, the stench from the site of the fire made her nauseous. Artem said there were early printed volumes and even chronicles in that section-our entire Middle Ages went up in smoke, almost all of the pre-Muscovite era. The arsonist was convicted after a widely publicized trial, and then was sent to work in Moldova's State Archives: the war went on. And we comforted ourselves with "manuscripts don't burn."
Oh, but they do burn. And cannot be restored.”
― The Museum of Abandoned Secrets
As if the Library of Alexandria never existed. Or the Pogruzhalsky arson, when the whole historical section of the Academy of Sciences' Public Library, more than six-hundred thousand volumes, including the Central Council archives from 1918, went up in flames. That was in the summer of 1964; Mom was pregnant with me already, and almost for an entire month afterward, as she made her way to work at the Lavra, she would get off the trolleybus when it got close to the university and take the subway the rest of the way: above ground, the stench from the site of the fire made her nauseous. Artem said there were early printed volumes and even chronicles in that section-our entire Middle Ages went up in smoke, almost all of the pre-Muscovite era. The arsonist was convicted after a widely publicized trial, and then was sent to work in Moldova's State Archives: the war went on. And we comforted ourselves with "manuscripts don't burn."
Oh, but they do burn. And cannot be restored.”
― The Museum of Abandoned Secrets
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