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Три дні у Сиренополі
Дебютна збірка творів Яни Дубинянської. Чарівне приморське місто і його моторошна таємниця. Інтелектуалка і її викличне кохання. Дівчина, яку віддають заміж у чужий край, населений вампірами. «Золотий хлопчик»-телеведучий, що виявляється здатним на страшний злочин… «Маємо прозу не фентезійну, а швидше — фантазійну чи фантасмагоричну. Прозу становлення особистості й особистого письменницького становлення. Це мов ранні вірші хорошого поета».
150 pages, ebook
Published January 1, 2018
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May 14, 2020
This is a collection of short stories and a novella by a Ukrainian author. The original works were written in the 1990s in Russian and then ‘crowd-translated’ to Ukrainian. The genre is a mix of fantasy, soft-SF, horror and weird.
The shorts reminded me of novels and stories used by Alfred Hitchcock for his movies, like Rebecca. They are more emotional then precise and there is a common trope (in several but not all stories) for many young aspiring female authors of a princess (a projection of the writer), who is even if not flashy beautiful is definitely pretty for the right prince, (handsome and strong) who’ll pine for her.
An example of the plot: there is a famous movie actress, who believes that she run away into the jungles with her local lover during the film production at some exotic location and bore a child. She was kidnapped by producers and everyone says that she imagined all that and had a nervous breakdown. She tried to outwit her ‘jailers’ and return to that exotic place. Another story: a young beautiful maiden pines for a foreign man, whose broad-shouldered frame she often sees from her window. And there is a song on background about ‘another country, where husbands drink wives’ blood’… her mother urges her to marry another foreigner…
Stories are interesting but not breath taking, replaying old plots. I enjoyed reading something new, but I cannot I became the author’s fan. The translation is very lousy, a lot of minor errors and attempts to translate word by word, so I can definitely ‘see’ the original behind the translation.
The shorts reminded me of novels and stories used by Alfred Hitchcock for his movies, like Rebecca. They are more emotional then precise and there is a common trope (in several but not all stories) for many young aspiring female authors of a princess (a projection of the writer), who is even if not flashy beautiful is definitely pretty for the right prince, (handsome and strong) who’ll pine for her.
An example of the plot: there is a famous movie actress, who believes that she run away into the jungles with her local lover during the film production at some exotic location and bore a child. She was kidnapped by producers and everyone says that she imagined all that and had a nervous breakdown. She tried to outwit her ‘jailers’ and return to that exotic place. Another story: a young beautiful maiden pines for a foreign man, whose broad-shouldered frame she often sees from her window. And there is a song on background about ‘another country, where husbands drink wives’ blood’… her mother urges her to marry another foreigner…
Stories are interesting but not breath taking, replaying old plots. I enjoyed reading something new, but I cannot I became the author’s fan. The translation is very lousy, a lot of minor errors and attempts to translate word by word, so I can definitely ‘see’ the original behind the translation.
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