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Who dares to take a word from the classics? Is it worth starting a dialogue and creating sequels to famous works? The Smoloskyp publishing house takes this bold step. Artem Sokol's novel Aglaya is an attempt to continue Mykola Khvylovyi's novel The Woodcocks.

In The Woodcocks by Mykola Khvylovy, we are introduced to the idea of the national revival of Ukraine, which was raging in the 20s of the XX century. We are faced with young people who are disappointed in the Communist Party and the recent revolution, who are looking for another country with new ideals. It is unknown whether they succeeded in achieving their goal, because the second part of the novel never reached readers.

Instead, we have the version proposed by A. Sokol in «Aglaia». This is the first attempt at a genre that has not yet been mastered in Ukrainian literature: a continuation story, a polemic story; a palimpsest half-worn out by time, through the lines of which the words of an unfinished novel appear. From it, we learn how the fates of not only Aglaya, Dmitry Karamazov, Professor Vovchik, and Aunt Klava from The Woodcocks, but also their descendants: Aglaya, Myta, Valik, who are the main characters of the new work, which takes place in Kharkiv in the 60s of the XX century. <"The Woodcocks" is a book that has long since taken its rightful place on the shelf of Ukrainian classics. "Aglaia" is an unprecedented phenomenon in Ukrainian literature, which we hope will start a good tradition.