1569: Serhii Zhadan Quotes 2022–2025: War, Language, Culture & Ukraine’s Literary Front
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen
Publication (Outlet/Website): Medium (Personal)
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2025/10/24
What do Zhadan’s reflections say about culture as resistance and the war’s imprint on language, identity, and art?
2022: “Yet you have to speak. Even during times of war. Especially during times of war.”
2022: “There’s no such thing as peace without justice.”
2022: “We are helping our army not because we want war but rather because we badly want peace.”
2022: “Does anyone still want to talk about Dostoevsky?”
2022: “If Ukraine wins, there is some future for us… If Russia wins, there will be no literature, no culture, nothing.”
2024: “What we will become depends on what happens at the front. It is there that our future, the future of our culture, is determined.”
2024: “They must motivate, not weaken or demoralize.”
2025: “Whenever the war ends — whatever can be called the end of the war — this struggle… will continue in other dimensions. This can be called a war of cultures.”
2025: “Talking about literature in times of war is a great luxury. To talk about literature, it is enough to look out the window.”
2025: “We are living in ‘twilight,’ when the lights are off. But after victory, they will turn on — and we will see a completely different picture.”
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