Ivano-Frankivsk’s Lileya-NV Publishers has released a book Disorientation on Site by Yuri Andrukhovych, whose name is well known to
The Day’s readers, reports The Day’s Lesia GANZHA . The book is a collection of essays printed in the 1990s. Remarkably, a special chapter called “Park of Culture” contains essays that first appeared in Den/The Day, meaning that Disorientation is their second birth, confirming that they are more than newspaper features, rather, a carefully thought-over chronicle of the end of the millennium. The book’s title is explained by the author as not only an experience in overcoming purely geographical misunderstanding ( Introduction to Geography should be the title of this accidental book, except for my wandering over the past several years. Suddenly it dawned on me that moving in time and space according to maps is not exactly a gratifying and promising business, so care for geography ought to be entrusted someone else...), but also as the author’s consistent desire to “disorient” (from the word Orient), turning to the West (“away from Moscow”) his contemporaries’ values. In order to get one’s bearings in this disoriented territory, the reader should store his/her irony; without doing so, the author advises, one should not even open the book.
