A Novel about a Good Person
book by Emma Andijewska
A Novel about a Good Person is an epic philosophical novel by the Ukrainian writer Emma Andijewska. The novel is set in the displaced persons camp for Ukrainians in Mittenwald (Germany) after World War II. The novel has a moral, philosophical and anti-imperial character. The particularity of the text are long sentences which sometimes reach several pages. The novel is written as a continuous text without division into chapters or sections. There are numerous episodic characters in the novel. The author worked on the novel in 1964–1968. The text was published twice: in 1973 by the Suchasnist publishing house in Munich and in 1993 by the Oriy publishing house in Kyiv. In 2017, the novel was translated into English by Olha Rudkevych and published with the foreword by Marko Robert Stech.
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The main theme of the novel is goodness. This is included in the title of the work.
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