Andrii Krasniashchykh (1970) is a Ukrainian writer. In Estonian, you can read his book Бог есть: +/-, which is a shocking, personal insight into the everyday life during Russia’s aggression against Ukraine, into the lives of people under bombardment. Krasniashchykh made the notes on which the book was based on his phone, which results in a fragmentary, but even more intense, sparse text, which is poured onto the paper in salvos, in which every breath counts. After the start of a full-scale war of aggression, Krasniashchykh was forced to flee Kharkiv, a city where, thirty years before the start of the war, he defended his thesis on James Joyce’s Ulysses, a fact that seems to come from another world, a parallel reality, against the background of his notes. To say that Andrii Krasniashchykh writes about the everyday tactile nature of war, the variations of fear, the effect of drastically changed reality on movement, breathing, everything that goes unacknowledged in peacetime, would be putting it mildly. Krasniashchykh describes a world where punctuation is replaced by bombs exploding. As the author himself writes, ‘I don’t have a style for war. I can’t find it in myself. And the old styles are gone.’
Performs at
| Date | Event Name | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Saturday, 31 May at 12:00 | Andrii Krasniashchykh and Igor Kotjuh | Estonian Writers’ Union |
