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Book 1: Lesya Ukrainka. Books by Sivilla

This book is an attempt to rethink the biography of Lesya Ukrainka, in which illness and creativity, Ukraine and the "foreign", politics and literature, classics and modernity, love and death are intertwined.

Disease and writing. The birth of creativity from the trauma experienced at the bedside of the terminally ill Merzhynsky. Spiritual and intellectual closeness to Drahomanov. Relationship with Kobylianska as a metaphor for female culture. The fate of artistic madness, which she experienced in moments of creative exaltation. Travelling around Europe and sanatorium tourism. The status of "otherness" as a recognition of a "new woman" and a "stranger" in the homeland. "Our own" through the prism of historical and cultural exoticism. All of this allowed Larysa Kosach-Kvitka to follow her own path and become a prophetess of the emerging twentieth century.

In the last year of her life, Lesia Ukrainka confessed to her mother: "...only a woman can write the story of Mavka." But the truth is that only a woman who lived and worked with Todesverachtung, i.e. despising death, could write all her works.

Book 2. Kobzar. Selected Poetry

Taras Shevchenko is a prominent figure whose words speak for the soul of the Ukrainian people. His "Kobzar" is one of the best achievements of our literature, and his works have been translated into more than a hundred languages. The publication of the collection in April 1840 was a landmark event not only in Ukrainian but also in Slavic literature in general.

The published texts are verified against the original manuscripts and lifetime editions of the poet's works. The collection is illustrated with reproductions of Taras Shevchenko's paintings and sketches.