Depeche Mode by Serhiy Zhadan
In 1993, tragic turbulence takes over Ukraine in the post-communist spin-off. As if in somnambulism, Soviet war veterans and upstart businessmen listen to an American preacher of whose type there were plenty at the time in the post-Soviet territory. In Kharkiv, the young communist headquarters is now an advertising agency, and a youth radio station brings Western music, with Depeche Mode in the lead, into homes of ordinary people. In the middle of this craze three friends, an anti-Semitic Jew Dogg Pavlov, an unfortunate entrepreneur Vasia the Communist and the narrator Zhadan, nineteen years of age and unemployed, seek to find their old pal Sasha Carburetor to tell him that his step-father shot himself dead. Characters confront elements of their reality, and, tainted with traumatic survival fever, embark on a sad, dramatic and a bit grotesque adventure.Serhiy Zhadan is a significant figure in contemporary Ukrainian writing, and his poems and novels have found a wide audience both at home and abroad. He has twice been nominated for Russian GQ's 'Man of the Year' in the writers category, and has twice received BBC Ukraine's Book of the Year (2006 and 2010). His varied interests include singing in a band, interpreting poetry, and organizing literary festivals, to name a few. Zhadan was born in the Luhansk Oblast's Starobilsk. In 1996, he graduated from Kharkiv University and went on to study philology at the graduate level for three years.
From 2000 to 2004, he taught Ukrainian and international literature before retiring from the classroom. Zhadan has translated poems by Paul Celan and Charles Bukowski from German, English, Belarusian, and Russian. German, English, Polish, Serbian, Croatian, Lithuanian, Belarusian, Russian, Hungarian, Armenian, Swedish, and Czech have all been translated into his works. In 2013, he took part in Kharkiv's Euromaidan protests, and in 2014, he was assaulted outside the government building in Kharkiv, an occurrence that was covered in The New Yorker.
He is based in Kharkiv and works there. Reilly Costigan-Humes is a Haverford College graduate with a degree in Russian literature and culture. He is based in Moscow and works as a translator of Ukrainian and Russian literature. Isaac Wheeler holds a master's degree in Russian translation from Columbia University, as well as a bachelor's degree in Russian language and literature from Haverford College.
Wheeler works as a professional business and literary translator in Brooklyn, New York.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781909156845 |
| ISBN 10 | 1909156841 |
| Title | Depeche Mode |
| Author | Serhiy Zhadan |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Glagoslav Publications Ltd |
| Year published | 2013-04-05 |
| Number of pages | 202 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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