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The collection of radio conversations by Igor Kachurovsky, a famous poet, prose writer, translator, literary critic, is the fruit of his 20-year work at the Munich office of the radio station "Freedom". This book contains conversations about the work of well-known, little-known, or even completely unknown representatives of world literature (to a much lesser extent, music and painting), creative portraits of Ukrainian translators, reviews of translated anthologies and translation studies, reviews of various poetic and prose translations published in Ukraine or in the diaspora, as well as translations of works of Ukrainian literature into the languages of the world.

Poetic translations, both by the author himself and his fellow translators, are used as illustrative material for discussions on literary topics.

The publication is intended for a wide range of readers who are ready to learn new pages in the history of world culture or rediscover the already known in a different, sometimes unexpected, light - from the point of view of a person who, over the years of living in the West, has become accustomed to measuring artistic phenomena by a single measure - the measure of aesthetic value, without regard to any stereotypes.

The book preserves the norms of the Ukrainian spelling of 1928 ("skrypnyky").