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Central European University Press
On Shaky Ground is a modernist novel written in the late 1930s and early 1940s and was originally published in Nazi occupied Kharkiv in 1942. One of the best examples of intellectual fiction of the time, the work summarizes the struggles of the Ukrainian intelligentsia in the late 1920s and early 1930s, when totalitarian reality, together with rampant industrialization, started to affect... Read more
Translator's Preface, On Shaky Ground
Biography
Viktor Petrov (1894–1969), who used the pen name of V .Domontovych and Viktor Ber, was a Ukrainian writer, philosopher, social anthropologist, literary critic, archeologist, historian, and cultural scientist, who held a PhD in history and philology. Together with Valerian Pidmohylny, he was one of the founders of the Ukrainian intellectual novel, as well as of the novelized biography.
