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Book Review
Yuriy Tarnawky's \Short Tails\
2012
Overview
He also writes about myriad other subjects, such as the irony of a situation (\"the rose tattoo\"), political farce (\"lenin's brain\"), perverted sex (\"bobby and bobbi\"), loneliness (\"missing\"), unfulfilled love (\"an earthquake in the heart\"), failure in life (\"ax. robat\") - to name only few. And the unifying factor of all these themes is alienation. upon a closer inspection, these words of introduction appear much deeper. Like a magician, Mr. [Yuriy Tarnawsky] distorts our attention, uncovering the obvious and hiding the essential, thus forcing us to use our own knowledge and our own imagination. He tells us that the persona's name is Rock, a rather common name and, at the same time, a synonym for stone. But it introduces through evocation a Christian theme. [Peterson] is formed by two distinct words: \"Peter\" or \"Perros\" in Greek, and \"son,\" which is a homonym of \"sun\" - a heavenly body. We think of association between Peterson and St. Peter - the rock upon which Jesus promised to build his Church. But despite this promise, man, like Rock Peterson, continues to suffer existential exile. In the words of Jean Paul Sartre's paradox, \"he is to freedom condemned.\" After this teller's voice, we no longer hear him. But we see with our own \"mind's eye\" these pictures. We ask ourselves, \"Who is this tall young man, wearing a jacket that was fashionable in 1930s, whose arms 'are bent at the elbows and hands balled into fists'; who creates the impression that one is looking at a child's pathetic little fists balled as a protection against the huge hostile world?\" We ask ourselves such questions as the images keep changing, as new pictorial themes appear. We ask these questions and we sort them out into a powerful narrative - until we begin to imagine someone's struggles, someone's life. The best way to describe this story is by imagining that somehow it jumped out from the book and assumed an independent life.
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Ukrainian National Association
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