This volume presents, for the first time in English, fourteen essays by Yuri Andrukhovych, making a well-known Ukrainian voice accessible to the English-speaking world.

Acknowledgments

A Biographical Preface about the Author
Michael M. Naydan

En Route Endeavours
Mark Andryczyk

Author’s Introduction
Yuri Andrukhovych

Autobiographical Essay:

The Central-Eastern Revision (expanded version 2005)

Culturological and Political Essays: 

Erz-Herz-Perz (1994)
The City-Ship (1994)
Carpathologia Comosphilica (1996)
Time and Place, or My Final Territory (1999)
A Little Bit of Urban Studies (1999)
What Language Are You From: A Ukrainian Writer among the Temptations of Temporariness (2002)
Meeting Place Germaschka (2002)
Four Million for Our Agents (2003)
A Land of Dreams (2004)
The Star Absinthe: Notes on a Bitter Anniversary (2011)
Love and Hatred in Kyiv (January 2014)
Seven Hundred Fierce Days, or the Role of a Contrabass in the Revolution (March 2014)

Afterword
Yuri Andrukhovych

Notes
Index

By Yuri Andrukhovych
Translated by Mark Andryczyk and Michael M. Naydan