Just like in “real reality,” yet another revolution has failed. Perhaps because it lost its enigmatic leader. Yosyp Rotsky (not to be confused with either Joseph Brodsky or Joseph Roth), the musical hero of the barricades, is forced to flee — anywhere — trying on the fate of countless other Yosyps. He is being hunted, and the regime’s secret services are only half the trouble. There’s also an ill-timed love he cannot master, and a banking secret he cannot crack. Prison experience and an unintentionally successful act of terror. And then—mind and oblivion, laughter and darkness, cold and hell, irony and ache. The last refuge from which he’s allowed to broadcast the night airwaves. But is it truly the last?
“Radio Night” is Yurii Andrukhovych’s most suspenseful and at the same time most lyrical work. A space where the adventure novel meets fantasy, and David Bowie crosses paths with wandering minstrels of the Middle Ages.
