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insight into life. I would call Malyarchuk Chekhovian for
her style and the subtle psychological depth that remains
a constant in her writing. We’ve got two tales from her in
this issue: her story “The Demon of Hunger” explores the
author’s childhood in themysteriousCarpathianMountains,
and the prose piece “I Wish I had a Tail” is indicative of
Malyarchuk’s penchant for narrative experimentation.
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Yuri Andrukhovych
(Юрій Андрухович, born in Ivano-
Frankivsk, 1960), co-founder of the Bu-Ba-Bu literary
performance group in 1985, is Ukraine’s leading
postmodernist writer and is best known for his novels
Recreations
(1992),
TheMoscoviad
(1993),
Perverzion
(1996),
and
Twelve Circles
(2003). Andrukhovych is also well known
throughout Europe for his thoughtful and provocative
literary, cultural, and autobiographical essays examining
his own and his country’s place in historical and present-
day Europe. His essay
“ Carpathologia Comosphilica”
comprises one of his more fanciful explorations of the
geography of his native Carpathian Mountain region on a
mythic level. We’re pleased to feature this as our first essay
in the new
Trafika Europe: Essays and Reviews section
on