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The new expanded edition of the well-known and profound biographer of Ukrainian luminaries tells about the difficult life and creative path of the undoubtedly talented humourist-satirist from Pokuttya, Les Martovych. His friend, peer, and like-minded person Vasyl Stefanyk called Les his childhood laugh and taste of genius. Such young people of peasant origin, having acquired knowledge, sought to share it with their native people: they even dropped out of school, went to villages, established reading rooms, conducted radical election campaigning for peasant candidates, wrote vivid correspondence to Lviv publications, and were associates of the radical Galician movement, along with such giants of the national political struggle as Ivan Franko and others. The humorous characterisation of Les Martovych's works, about whom the writer, publicist, and radical associate Mykhailo Pavlyk also said that "we have our own Hohol," preserves natural boundaries, although it is always on the verge of grotesque and caricature. Ivan Franko believed that Martovych is, first of all, a wonderful observer of peasant life, and his novels are defined by unusual humour. He is able to convey the irony of fate that dominates a person, his conscious and unconscious actions in a completely different light than it is in reality, in a way that no one in our literature has been able to convey. His manner is completely original, light and far from any template. And most importantly, he was an exposé of the entire system of social and national enslavement of the hardworking people of Western Ukraine, because all of Martovych's literary work was a lively response to the topical issues of the Galician reality of the time. And with his humanity for the Ukrainian hardworking people, hatred of evil and injustice, the writer's works are close to us today.