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Book 1. Podorozh scientist Dr Leonardo...

Mike Johansen is a Ukrainian avant-garde writer. He recognised his readers that he would never hesitate to break another tradition. This determined his style of writing - to break the rules and create new poetry out of their tricks.

In this book you will find the works that have become Johannsen's calling card - the ironic, parodic novel "The journey of the scientist Dr Leonardo and his future mate, the beautiful Alcesti to Slobozhanska Schweizartia", the text "How an opovidannya will be" and selected poems, which are key to understanding the author's creative approach.

These texts of a true literary experimenter. His aim is to unravel our perceptions of what literature should be and, on the one hand, to bore the reader into a mystical game and, on the other hand, to show how much natural pleasure can be derived from these experiments.

Book 2. The Garden of Gethsemane

"It is better to kill a hundred innocents than to miss one guilty one" - this was the epoch in which millions of Ukrainians of the 1930s lived, and it is this tragic experience that Ivan Bagryanyi depicts in his novel "The Garden of Hetsimanskyi". On the example of Andriy Chumak's life, the author demonstrates in detail how the thoroughly repressive machinery of the Radian system worked, how this system ponievolved and demolished people regardless of their achievements, walk, age or status.

A doctor, a singer, a director of a gymnasium - your past is not of little importance in your life: even if you have achieved something, you are still at the very bottom. Ivan Bagryanyi is convinced that the fight against evil is necessary even when it seems that there is no sense to fight further, and the remaining choice always depends on the person.

Rating 18+

Book 3. Misto

The novel "Misto" by Valer'yan Pidmogilny is the story of an ambitious young man who moves from his village to Kiev and makes a new life there. He is often compared to the hero of "Any Friend". Maupassant and the self-reliant and not overexcited in means pidkoryvachacha sushpilnyh tops of Balzac's plots. However, for Pidmogilny is not only the history of car'ery. He describes the life of Stepan Radchenok in the historical and cultural context of that time Ukraine.

Marginal and a stranger Radchenko during the novel is purposefully rectified vikstaltovuetovu himself, get education, and join the intellectual and creative elite. He finds the world before him difficult.

Otherwise, the novel "Misto", written in 1927, showed a very important achievement of the national revolution: the return of urban space under Ukrainian cultural jurisdiction. The era of lowly self-oblivion within the framework of domestic rusticism was left behind, and Kyiv was once again becoming the centre of a powerful art renaissance.

Book 4. A novella about the sanatorium zone. Sentimental History. I (Romance)

Mikola Khvilovy - one of the most accurate diagnosticians of his revolutionary work. An author who, more than anyone else, understood the peculiarities of the life choices of his contemporaries. The writer who decided not to wait for imminent arrest and shot himself in the back on 13th of January 1933.

His name was banned. Even the grave of Khvilovy was leveled with the ground, and on its place they built a "park of culture and recreation". No grave, no memorial, no texts... It would seem that everything was irrevocably lost. But after years Khvilovy's texts have found their way home.

In this book you will find three works by Mykola Khvilovoy - "The Story of the Sanatorium Zone", "Sentimental History" and "I (Romance)". Texts, for which it is possible to understand what he was like, what was the epoch. Khvilovy's characters are "rootless romantics", heroes, spovneni rozpachu, unable to build bridges between their own romantic vision and reality, in which these values lose their sense.