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Meetings and Farewells is a memoir by a prominent literary critic, a man whose youth was spent in one of the most dynamic but also the most tragic epochs of our literary history, the 1920s and 30s.

In 1925-29. Hryhorii Kostiuk studied in Kyiv, taking courses from such prominent figures as M. Zerov, P. Filipovych, and B. Yakubskyi. In the 1930s, he moved to Kharkiv and joined the literary association PROLITFRONT, where he was in close contact with M. Khvylovy, M. Kulish, P. Tychyna, Y. Yanovsky, H. Epik, Ivan Bahrianyi, Ostap Vyshnia, and many other writers. He witnessed the Stalinist massacre of the intelligentsia and eventually ended up in a concentration camp himself. The first volume of Meetings and Farewells is dedicated to this period of Kostiuk's life. These are lively, poignant memories of all those artists and scientists whom the author met, of the problems that worried them, and, ultimately, of their everyday life, the very fabric of their lives.

Till now, the most extensive memoir about literary Kyiv and Kharkiv in the 20s and 30s was considered to be Yuriy Smolych's A Story of Unrest. However, Kostiuk's book, written in exile, that is, without any censorship, is much more complete and sincere. It will be of interest not only to philologists - anyone interested in the living history of culture will enjoy reading Meetings and Farewells.