Notes on Living by Max Eulitz (ed.)
Notes on Living. Reflections on Ukraine Today was published earlier this year by Spector Books. This anthology presents current positions of contemporary Ukrainian authors. Their narrative texts, essays, diary entries, and poems deal with faultlines in society and the psychological state of the present. The topics include the politics of language, the dreams of soldiers, wartime urban architecture, Western fatigue, shame, and radical gestures of care. The texts set out to make their reflections on current conditions a basis for discussing a future postwar society. The book is complemented by two image sequences with drawings by Davyd Chychkan and Marharyta Polovinko.
It was edited by Max Eulitz and written by author and psychoanalyst Yuliia Leites, curator and journalist Hanna Tsyba, and curator Alya Segal. With contributions by Mariana Berezovska, Oksana Briukhovetska, Oleksandr Burlaka, Davyd Chychkan, Hixto, Yelizaveta Landenberger, Yulila Leites, Oleksii Minko, Marharyta Polovinko, Julia Stakhivska, Nastya Vogan, Arina Yanovych
Design by Lorenz Klingebiel with typefaces KTF Rublena (Kyiv Type Foundry) and ABC Favorit (Dinamo).
