George Saunders. “Sticks”
Translated from English by Andrii Zhurba
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https://doi.org/10.28925/2311-259x.2025.1.9Keywords:
flash fiction, George Saunders, literary translationAbstract
An original Ukrainian translation of the short story Sticks by American writer George Saunders is proposed.
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