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The Mayor Sits on Death — Andrii Protsailo

The Mayor Sits on Death is a novella by Andrii Protsailo, a satirical and grotesque story about power, corruption, and the absurdity of provincial politics in Ukraine.

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The Mayor Sits on Death is a work in which Protsailo creates a grotesque portrait of a provincial mayor embodying all the vices and absurdity of local government. Death transforms from a metaphor into the hero's literal companion.

The novella is written in the tradition of Ukrainian satire going back to Gogol and Kvitka-Osnovianenko, but with a contemporary focus on post-Soviet reality.

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AuthorAndrii Protsailo

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