The Mountains are Smoking

The Mountains are Smoking (in Polish: Góry dymią) is a novel by the Polish and Ukrainian writer Yaroslav Halan written in Polish in 1938. It was published as a single book by a private Lviv publisher Myśl under the alias Miron Jaro.[1]

The Mountains are Smoking
AuthorYaroslav Halan
(aka Miron Jaro)
Original titleGóry dymią
LanguagePolish
GenreDrama
PublisherMyśl (Lwów)
Publication date
1939
Publication placeSecond Polish Republic
Media typePrint
Pages288 (first published edition)

The story has been written in the mountain village Nyzhniy Bereziv.[2]

Plot

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The events of the story take place in the early 1920s, in a Hutsul village on the Polish-Romanian border in Pokuttia. Olga, a priest’s daughter, before her father died, makes him promise to marry his friend Martyn Pogodniak, a Polish officer of the local border outpost. However, later she falls in love with the «noble robber» Ivan Semeniuk. Over time they realize that they couldn't live without each other and decide to escape but the robber’s wife Marichka snitches on them to the officer.

Ukrainian editions

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Adapted Screenplay

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ Jaro, Miron (1939). Góry dymią (in Polish). Myśl.
  2. ^ "Довідка села Нижній Березів". Kosiv.org.ua (in Ukrainian). Archived from the original on September 3, 2018.
  3. ^ "Вечір пам'яті Степана Трофимука". www.inst-ukr.lviv.ua (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 2018-11-18.
  4. ^ Halan, Yaroslav Oleksandrovich (1956). Гори димлять. Повість. (Переклад з польської С. Трофимчук.).
  5. ^ Галан, Ярослав (1959). Гори димлять: повість (in Ukrainian).
  6. ^ "Фильм "Горы дымят" (1988)" [Film "The Mountains are Smoking" (1988)]. Кино-Театр.ru (in Russian). Archived from the original on April 7, 2018.