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The role of the intellectual in Ukraine and the world, the meaning of irony, the Nazi and Communist totalitarian regimes as portrayed by Tadeusz Borowski and Gustaw Herling-Grudziński, Taras Shevchenko through the eyes of Hryhoriy Hrabovych, Ivan Franko through the eyes of Yaroslav Hrytsak, Lesya Ukrainka through the eyes of Oksana Zabuzhko, Yuriy Andrukhovych through the eyes of Karl-Josef Zumbrunnen, but also the Maidan and post-revolutionary confusion, reconciliation with Poland and the war with Russia, Crimea and Donbas - this is an incomplete list of topics that are more or less touched upon in this collection.