Because Deserters Are Immortal
Igor Kaczurowskyj

Name: Because Deserters Are Immortal
ISBN: 978-617-664-326-5

Because Deserters Are Immortal is the debut novel by Igor Kaczurowskyj (1918–2013), an outstanding Ukrainian poet of the neoclassical school and translator of world poetry, prose writer and memoirist, universal literary scholar and legendary journalist for Radio Liberty. First published in Munich in 1956, it became the author’s bestseller. Translated into English and German. It consists of twelve novelletes — twelve episodes from the life of the protagonist, a young Ukrainian intellectual from a family repressed by the Soviet regime, who during World War II, unwilling to fight under the banner of the regime that destroyed his family, chooses the path of a deserter.

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Igor Kaczurowskyj (1918–2013), an eminent Ukrainian poet-neoclassicist, novelist and short story writer, translator, literary scholar and literary critic, university lecturer, journalist. He spent most of his life in exile working as a port labourer, lecturing on Ancient Ukrainian literature at the Catholic University and on Russian literature at the University of El Salvador, both in Buenos Aires, on history and theory of literature at the Ukrainian Free University in Munich; also he wrote and broadcast literature reviews at the Ukrainian Desk of the broadcasting service Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. More details