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Apocalypse Baroque

Sasha Dovzhyk
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Anthropology
Anti-memoir
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Conflict and society
Contemporary Europe
Cultural commentary
Cultural resilience
Diaspora
Eastern Europe
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Essays
Everyday life in conflict
Folk traditions
forthcoming
Geopolitics
Identity under war
International relations
Literary non-fiction
Literature and activism
Lived experience
Myth and legend
Narrative journalism
PEN Internationa
Post-Soviet identity
Reportage
Russia-Ukraine war
Social change
Ukraine
Ukrainian culture
Ukrainian folklore
War in Ukraine

Product details

  • ISBN 9781917569316
  • Weight: 200g
  • Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
  • Publication Date: 24 Sep 2026
  • Publisher: Extraordinary Books
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Hardback
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A radical reframing of Russia’s war on Ukraine


‘Apocalypse Baroque bears witness to a country on fire and a culture that fights against erasure. Crossing Ukraine in trains and volunteer cars, I have collected testimonies of everyday defiance that has surprised the world and, at times, Ukrainians themselves. A suitable language for relaying the atrocities we endure does not exist. I accept it, alongside the need to reach for a universal dimension in the singular horror of each act of Russian aggression. When reaching for the universal, one often taps into folklore. And once in the realm of folklore, one can read the old stories in a new way and make the reading emancipatory. In the sixteen tales that comprise this book, we meet characters from myth and legend next to my contemporaries and fellow citizens, united in a fight for justice.’


Sasha Dovzhyk
About Sasha Dovzhyk
Sasha Dovzhyk lives in Lviv, Ukraine, and is the director of INDEX: Institute for Documentation and Exchange, which promotes Ukrainian culture and documents Russia’s war. She holds a PhD from Birkbeck, University of London, where she also taught. She has also taught Ukrainian literature at UCL. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Review of Books and The Guardian. She is Editor-in-Chief of the London Ukrainian Review and formerly worked at the Ukrainian Institute London.

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