“Europe will be united in the fish”. Remarks on the rivers in the works of Yurii Andrukhovych Cover Image

„Europa zjednoczy się w rybie”. Uwagi o rzekach w twórczości Jurija Andruchowycza
“Europe will be united in the fish”. Remarks on the rivers in the works of Yurii Andrukhovych

Author(s): Jagoda Wierzejska
Subject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: Wydział Polonistyki Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: Ukraina; Europa Środkowa; Zachód; zjednoczenie Europy; Dunaj; Dniestr; Ukraine; Central Europe; West; unification of Europe; the Danube; the Dniester River

Summary/Abstract: The article is an interpretation of the aquatic rhetoric in the works of a Ukrainian writer, Yurii Andrukhovych. The first part of the article is an analysis of the discursive project of European unification, a real integration between the West and Central Europe, especially Ukraine. The rhetorical figures of that unification in the author’s texts are the rivers, the Danube in the first place. The second part of the article is a critical discussion of the obstacles that, in the perspective of the author, stand on the way to the unification in question: the condition of contemporary Ukraine and the West’s attitude to the “worse” part of the continent.

  • Issue Year: 2015
  • Issue No: 5 (8)
  • Page Range: 533-550
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: Polish