{"product_id":"at-the-village","title":"At the Village","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAt the Village\u003c\/i\u003e is the second volume of Polish poet and novelist Józef Lobodowski’s\u003cem\u003e Ukrainian Trilogy\u003c\/em\u003e, written between 1955 and 1960. The most lyrical and evocative installment of the cycle, it offers the fullest and most sympathetic portrait of Cossack life in all of modern Slavic literature. Lobodowski immerses the reader in the world of a fiercely independent people whose destiny has long been shaped by the competing gravitational pulls of the Russian Empire and the old Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book’s protagonist, Staś, finds himself the guest of the Cossack Jakov Antonovich, a scholar as well as a military leader and an agricultural potentate. His time at Antonovich’s \u003cem\u003estanitsa\u003c\/em\u003e provides him with an incomparable education in the history of the old Polish Commonwealth of nations, which at its height encompassed Poland, Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. It is a lesson all the more engaging to the reader in that it is presented from a perspective that is neither Polish nor Russian, but Cossack. Through Łobodowski’s interweaving of historical reflection with sumptuous descriptions of agricultural life on the well-ordered \u003cem\u003estanitsa, At the Village\u003c\/em\u003e is sometimes compared to the Polish national epic, Adam Mickiewicz’s \u003cem\u003ePan Tadeusz\u003c\/em\u003e (1834), upon which Łobodowski is said to have consciously modelled the novel.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Central European University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Product","offer_id":57296873685336,"sku":"9789633867938","price":75.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/at-the-village","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}