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"The Cathedral" is a philosophical novel that examines important social and national issues from the perspective of eternal humanistic truths that must guide human civilisation in order to avoid destruction and annihilation. The work is centred on the problem of the spirituality of a modern person, or rather, the problem of the spirituality of a modern Ukrainian. Therefore, it is closely related to the problems of parents and children, the succession of generations, the preservation of historical memory and national dignity, national nihilism, and apostasy from one's people. The novel consists of many chapters, each of which tells the story of one of the characters. But all of them are united by the image of the cathedral, which is the epicentre of the events unfolding around it. It can be called the main character of the novel. It has become a real artistic discovery for Oles Honchar, and was perceived as a painful warning for all Ukrainians. It is because of this image that the author was so sharply criticised, and the work was banned for a long time...