| Author: | Roman Korec | ISBN: | 9780994910219 |
| Publisher: | Roman Korec | Publication: | November 5, 2015 |
| Imprint: | Language: | English |
| Author: | Roman Korec |
| ISBN: | 9780994910219 |
| Publisher: | Roman Korec |
| Publication: | November 5, 2015 |
| Imprint: | |
| Language: | English |
PROPOSITION
This is the story of us, Slavs connected by a common Soviet Bloc history, warily living out our new lives in far-off, English-speaking places, carrying on resourcefully, but remaining culturally invisible or, worse, reduced to thick-accented villains or meat-and-dumpling socio-culinary media soundbites tucked deep in the hosts' national subconscious.
It is there, at the fringe of these adopted cultures, that we find our old "Eastern" identities inconveniently frothing up into the new ones that we cannot quite PERFECTLY settle into.
And, so, we oscillate between a nostalgia for the culture of our old "East" (Europe) and an uneasy distrust of the now crumbling manufactured dreams of "the West" that we longed after for so long, and chased far to grasp.
i Are the Kanatan is a bittersweet anthem to our unspoken joys and our deep souls simmering beneath deceptively thin learned linguistic constructs.
SYNOPSIS
The Son is an ordinary thirty-something far west Canadian hipster of "Eastern" European origin, directionless and still living with his parents, who would like nothing better than to “finally do something significant” with his life. One day, during a particularly strong bout of nostalgia (for his childhood behind the Iron Curtain), he resolves to set things right, by putting on an old-fashioned revolution, and thus begins a tragicomic story of how he tries—quite unsuccessfully—to plot to turn the province he lives in into a retro socialist kitsch utopia.
This debut mashup novella–part one-time novel with a turbulent backstory, part upcycled feature film script–is a satirical exploration of immigrant nostalgia and hyperreality underscoring moments of everyday life, with hearthy Slavic soul and ample comic Euroflavour subtexts to boot.
Read it now, laugh and cry, and embrace the "East" in you.
PROPOSITION
This is the story of us, Slavs connected by a common Soviet Bloc history, warily living out our new lives in far-off, English-speaking places, carrying on resourcefully, but remaining culturally invisible or, worse, reduced to thick-accented villains or meat-and-dumpling socio-culinary media soundbites tucked deep in the hosts' national subconscious.
It is there, at the fringe of these adopted cultures, that we find our old "Eastern" identities inconveniently frothing up into the new ones that we cannot quite PERFECTLY settle into.
And, so, we oscillate between a nostalgia for the culture of our old "East" (Europe) and an uneasy distrust of the now crumbling manufactured dreams of "the West" that we longed after for so long, and chased far to grasp.
i Are the Kanatan is a bittersweet anthem to our unspoken joys and our deep souls simmering beneath deceptively thin learned linguistic constructs.
SYNOPSIS
The Son is an ordinary thirty-something far west Canadian hipster of "Eastern" European origin, directionless and still living with his parents, who would like nothing better than to “finally do something significant” with his life. One day, during a particularly strong bout of nostalgia (for his childhood behind the Iron Curtain), he resolves to set things right, by putting on an old-fashioned revolution, and thus begins a tragicomic story of how he tries—quite unsuccessfully—to plot to turn the province he lives in into a retro socialist kitsch utopia.
This debut mashup novella–part one-time novel with a turbulent backstory, part upcycled feature film script–is a satirical exploration of immigrant nostalgia and hyperreality underscoring moments of everyday life, with hearthy Slavic soul and ample comic Euroflavour subtexts to boot.
Read it now, laugh and cry, and embrace the "East" in you.
