Fieldwork in Ukrainian Sex, Oksana Zabuzhko
Fieldwork in Ukrainian Sex, Oksana Zabuzhko
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Fieldwork in Ukrainian Sex

Author: Oksana Zabuzhko, Halyna Hryn

Narrator: Angela Dawe

Unabridged: 4 hr 55 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/29/2012

Synopsis

Called “the most influential Ukrainian book for the 15 years of independence, Field Work in Ukrainian Sex by Oksana Zabuzhko is the tale of one woman’s personal revolt provoked by a top literary scandal of the decade. The author, a noted Ukrainian poet and novelist, explains: “When you turn 30, you inevitably start reconsidering what you have been taught in your formative years—that is, if you really seek for your own voice as a writer. In my case, my personal identity crisis had coincided with the one experienced by my country after the advent of independence. The result turned explosive: Field Work in Ukrainian Sex.”

About Oksana Zabuzhko

Oksana Zabuzhko was born in 1960 in Ukraine. She made her poetry debut at the age of 12, yet, because her parents had been blacklisted during the Soviet purges of the 1970s, it was not until the perestroika that her first book was published. She graduated from the department of philosophy of Kyiv Shevchenko University, obtained her PhD in philosophy of arts, and has spent some time in the USA lecturing as a Fulbright Fellow and a Writer-in-Residence at Penn State University, Harvard University, and University of Pittsburgh. After the publication of her novel Field Work in Ukrainian Sex (1996), which in 2006 was named “the most influential Ukrainian book for the 15 years of independence”, she has been living in Kiev as a free-lance author. She has authored 17 books of poetry, fiction, and non-fiction, which have been translated into fifteen languages. Among her numerous acknowledgments are the Global Commitment Foundation Poetry Prize (1997), MacArthur Grant (2002), Antonovych International Foundation Prize (2008), the Ukrainian National Award, the Order of Princess Olha (2009), and many other national awards.

Reviews

Goodreads review by s.penkevich on April 11, 2022

‘A true homeland is the country that cankillyou, even at a distance.’ First published in 1996 when Ukraine had recently become an independent nation, Fieldwork in Ukranian Sex propelled Oksana Zabuzhko to fame as the novel remained a bestseller for the remained of the decade. It has been dubbed ‘th......more

Goodreads review by MJ on March 02, 2022

A pleasing fact—one of the most popular Ukrainian novels is a strident, experimental, and full-fanged onslaught on the country’s culture, history, and machismo, narrated by a feminist writer working in America.* The prose is constructed in torturously poetic page-long sentences, with frequent shifts......more

Goodreads review by Introverticheart on April 28, 2022

Badania terenowe nad ukraińskim seksem to błyskotliwa, uważna wiwisekcja sytuacji kobiet w postsowieckim społeczeństwie, która prowokuje do rozmyślań o kompleksach, nie tylko ukraińskich, ale także o kompleksach społeczeństw byłego bloku wschodniego. Zabużko w gęstej, pełnej drapieżności narracji pr......more

Goodreads review by Jennifer on May 30, 2015

This book is amazing. It took a little bit to get into. I struggled in the first 50 pages. You can not skim this book. Don't even try. The prose style is rather unforgiving, but that really is the point. The point is to chew it. To go slowly. To go back and forth over sentences and phrases. This is......more

Goodreads review by Robert on June 22, 2021

What the hell did I just read? This was my book for Ukraine for the #ReadingEurope2021. When North Macedonia lost to Ukraine, I was to read something by a Ukrainian author, or set in Ukraine, or about Ukraine in some way. I've been to Ukraine twice, so I was really looking forward to this, but no. Th......more

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