{"product_id":"the-tears-and-smiles-of-things-stories-sketches-meditations-paperback","title":"The Tears and Smiles of Things: Stories, Sketches, Meditations - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAndriy Sodomora\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eRoman Ivashkiv\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator), \u003cb\u003eSabrina Jaszi\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn evocative collection of vignettes and essays from Ukraine's \"voice\" of classical antiquity, now available in English for the first time.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInspired by Virgil's exquisitely ambivalent phrase \"sunt lacrimae rerum\" (there are tears of\/for\/in things), Andriy Sodomora, the Ukrainian \"voice\" of classical antiquity, has produced a series of original vignettes and essays about things: the big things in our lives (like happiness, loneliness, and aging); the small things we do or see daily, rarely paying attention to them (like a tree's shadow or the kernels on an ear of corn); and the things (i.e., objects) to which we form connections. The selected stories presented here are the first English translations of Sodomora's profoundly intellectual and intertextual prose. Through his nostalgic memories and recollections, Sodomora takes readers on a journey through western Ukraine, as well as through world literature, from ancient Greece and Rome to the poetry of Paul Verlaine and Federico Garc? Lorca.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis book has been published with the support of the Translate \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eUkraine Translation Program\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAndriy Sodomora\u003c\/b\u003e is a Ukrainian translator, writer, and professor of Classics at the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, Ukraine. His translation oeuvre includes an astounding number of volumes from ancient Greek and Roman authors. At the age of 85, Sodomora remains extremely prolific, successfully combining translation and creative writing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRoman Ivashkiv\u003c\/b\u003e is Assistant Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Alabama. He researches transmesis (i.e., fictional representation of translation and translators) in contemporary Ukrainian literature. With Canadian writer Er? Moure, he published an English translation of the Ukrainian writer Yuri Izdryk's poetry collection entitled \u003ci\u003eSmokes\u003c\/i\u003e (2019).\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSabrina Jaszi is a writer and literary translator. She co-founded Turkoslavia, a translators' collective and journal of Turkic and Slavic literature. Her translations include the works of Reed Grachev, O'tkir Hoshimov, Nadezhda Teffi, Alisa Ganieva, and Semyon Lipkin.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMarkiyan Dombrovskyi\u003c\/b\u003e is a Ukrainian classical philologist at the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv. He researches classical literature (works on Latin elegy, especially Tibullus, Greek epigram etc), as well as Neo-Latin epigraphy in Ukraine. He also translates early modern Ukrainian historical sources written in Latin.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 132\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.31 x 8 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 13, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51782123946272,"sku":"9798887194387","price":21.55,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/579781ecf8a439f53a4e24ed6cc49c07.webp?v=1780563473","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-tears-and-smiles-of-things-stories-sketches-meditations-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}