At the village / Józef Lobodowski ; translated from the Polish and introduced by Charles S. Kraszewski

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Łobodowski, Józef, author.

Contributor:

Kraszewski, Charles S., translator, writer of introduction.

Series:

The Ukrainian trilogy ; part 2

Standardized Title:

W stanicy. English

Language:

English

Polish

Subjects (All):

Cossacks--Fiction.

Cossacks.

Genre:

Fiction

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

[Amsterdam, The Netherland] : CEU Press, 2026

Summary:

"At the Village is the second volume of Polish poet and novelist Józef Lobodowski’s Ukrainian Trilogy, written between 1955 and 1960. The most lyrical and evocative installment of the cycle, it offers the fullest and most sympathetic portrait of Cossack life in all of modern Slavic literature. Lobodowski immerses the reader in the world of a fiercely independent people whose destiny has long been shaped by the competing gravitational pulls of the Russian Empire and the old Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. The book’s protagonist, Stas, finds himself the guest of the Cossack Jakov Antonovich, a scholar as well as a military leader and an agricultural potentate. His time at Antonovich’s stanitsa provides him with an incomparable education in the history of the old Polish Commonwealth of nations, which at its height encompassed Poland, Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. It is a lesson all the more engaging to the reader in that it is presented from a perspective that is neither Polish nor Russian, but Cossack. Through Lobodowski’s interweaving of historical reflection with sumptuous descriptions of agricultural life on the well-ordered stanitsa, At the Village is sometimes compared to the Polish national epic, Adam Mickiewicz’s Pan Tadeusz (1834), upon which Lobodowski is said to have consciously modelled the novel"-- De Gruyter Brill

Notes:

Online resource; title from PDF title page (De Gruyter Brill, viewed September 10, 2026)

Other Format:

Print version: Łobodowski, Józef At the village

ISBN:

9789633867952

9633867959

9789633867945

9633867940

9781040998465

1040998461

9781040998434

1040998437

OCLC:

1581179104

Access Restriction:

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