''Perverzion'' is a novel written by Ukrainian author Yuri Andrukhovych. The novel is considered to be part of Ukrainian

post-modernist Postmodernism encompasses a variety of artistic, cultural, and philosophical movements that claim to mark a break from modernism. They have in common the conviction that it is no longer possible to rely upon previous ways of depicting the worl ...

literature. It was originally written in 1997 in Ukrainian but was translated into English by Michael M. Naydan and published in 2005. The book was published by

Northwestern University Press Northwestern University Press is an American publishing house affiliated with Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. It publishes 70 new titles each year in the areas of continental philosophy, poetry, Slavic and German literary criticis ...

, . It tells the tragicomic last days of a poet in

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. Some literary scholars and critics have identified a conditional trilogy consisting of the novels Recreation, Moscoviada, and Perversion: the hero (antihero) of each of them is a bohemian poet who finds himself in the midst of the fatal transformation of “physics into metaphysics” and vice versa. All of the novels are a rather tangible mixture of genres and styles (confession, “black realism,” thriller, gothic, satire), and the time of the action in them is very limited and condensed: one night in Recreation, one day in Moscoviada, five days and nights in Perversion. Oleksandra Hnatiuk noted that these works are united by postcolonial discourse. The author himself did not insist on this understanding of his novels.

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Ukrainian-language books 1997 novels Ukrainian novels Postmodern novels Novels set in Venice {{italic title

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