Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. A Biographical Preface about the Author ix
5. En Route Endeavours xvii
6. Author’s Introduction xix
7. Autobiographical Essay: The Central-Eastern Revision 3
8. Culturological and Political Essays
9. Erz-Herz-Perz 55
10. The City-Ship 64
11. Carpathologia Cosmophilica 70
12. Time and Place, or My Final Territory 80
13. A Little Bit of Urban Studies 88
14. What Language Are You From: A Ukrainian Writer among the Temptations of Temporariness 98
15. Meeting Place Germaschka 109
16. Four Million for Our Agents 122
17. A Land of Dreams 125
18. The Star Absinthe: Notes on a Bitter Anniversary 133
19. Love and Hatred in Kyiv 143
20. Seven Hundred Fierce Days, or the Role of a Contrabass in the Revolution 146
21. An Afterword with Altered Circumstances 157
22. Notes 167
23. Index 175