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  • ‘Light on the Hills’

    Posted On: December 21st, 2020
    Posted In: Agnon Literary Centre, Publications, Literature, Sponsored Projects, Culture, Other Programs

    The publication Light on the Hills is the result of the Agnon literary residency, which took place from September to December 2019, in Buchach, Ukraine. This is the second residency to gather Ukrainian writers in…

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    Myth overcomes History

    Posted On: May 11th, 2020
    Posted In: Agnon Literary Centre, Sponsored Projects, Other Programs

    From ancient times a story has drifted through various cultures about remarkable masters who are destroyed or maimed by a powerful client so that they will never again create something similar for anyone else. This…

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    Oleksii Chupa: “What’s behind this door?”

    Posted On: May 4th, 2020
    Posted In: Agnon Literary Centre, Sponsored Projects, Other Programs

    I am still plagued by the thought: What did Agnon feel after returning home? I am trying to imagine this in more detail: How an incredulous expression appears on his face when the train is…

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    A city of the past and the future

    Posted On: April 27th, 2020
    Posted In: Agnon Literary Centre, Sponsored Projects, Other Programs

    The small cities of western Ukraine truly amaze the residents of eastern Ukraine, which also has beautiful and unforgettable large cities: Odesa, Kharkiv—and Kyiv, after all. But the former provincial cities of eastern Ukraine, if…

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    Vasyl Makhno: Why it’s worth returning to Buchach

    Posted On: April 20th, 2020
    Posted In: Agnon Literary Centre, Sponsored Projects

    To forget nothing If Buchach is a city of returning, then I got back in time. Are they not for me, these unpainted and unplastered facades of buildings lining the narrow streets above the Strypa…

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    Distance launch of Sofia Andrukhovych’s novel Amadoka at the Mystetskyi Arsenal

    Posted On: April 16th, 2020
    Posted In: Agnon Literary Centre, Literature, Sponsored Projects, Culture, Other Programs

    The launch of Sofia Andrukhovych’s just-published novel Amadoka was supposed to take place at the Mystetskyi Arsenal National Art and Culture Museum Complex on 21 March 2020. Over two hundred people were expected at this…

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    Yevheniya Kononenko talks about a city that generates secrets

    Posted On: April 13th, 2020
    Posted In: Agnon Literary Centre, Sponsored Projects, Other Programs

    Small towns are a special kind of world. According to Yurii Sherekh, anything that does not assert itself as a capital of the world remains a hopeless province. And that is why small towns have…

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    How are they to live above a precipice?

    Posted On: April 6th, 2020
    Posted In: Agnon Literary Centre, Sponsored Projects, Other Programs

    In the end, there remains so much that is unspoken that when we say goodbye, it becomes awkward. And in this respect, it is even worse with cities than with people. With the latter you…

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    To go to Buchach

    Posted On: March 30th, 2020
    Posted In: Agnon Literary Centre, Sponsored Projects, Other Programs

    Briefly, the phrase “to go to Buchach” came to me when I was five years old. But what is this Buchach? Who is it? I didn’t know. Where is it, anyway? When Buchach was talked…

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    Sometimes I’m not the only one who sees this

    Posted On: March 23rd, 2020
    Posted In: Agnon Literary Centre, Sponsored Projects, Other Programs

    After all, like always, everything is resolved by optics and context. My second visit to Buchach happened once again in autumn, when the foliage and the sun recede slowly, exposing the stone backbone of the…

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