Oksana Zabuzhko
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Oksana Zabuzhko (born 19 Septmeber 1960) is a Ukrainian writer, poet and essayist. Sabushko focuses on Ukrainian identity and often uses feminist and postcolonial methodology.
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- That’s what cell phones are for—to mask our rapidly progressing helplessness vis-à-vis the real world when we find ourselves face to face with it.
- It takes a lifetime to understand that long ago the grown-ups lied to you, that in fact nothing living, neither a flower, nor a rabbit, nor a person, nor a country, can, in fact, be had: they can only be destroyed, which is the one way to confirm they have been possessed.
- Ukrainians are fighting to free Europe from the spectre of totalitarianism
- We have behind us a whole century of mass madness. What have we learned from it if we do not recognize history repeating itself in a new guise?
- If authors weren’t translated, it doesn’t mean they didn’t exist”
