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Book 1. Selected works. Valse melancolique. On Sunday, early in the morning, I dug a potion

Olha Kobylianska is a Ukrainian writer of the modernist era, an early participant of the feminist movement in Bukovyna, a master of dramatic novels and short stories on the oppression of Ukrainian women, the crisis situation in the village.

«Valse melancolique» is a short story about the fate of three independent, strong-willed women: Marta, Hanna and Sofia. The novel is characterised by a rich symbolism of images, and the theme of music is a cross-cutting theme.

«On Sunday Early I Was Digging Herbs» is a social and domestic story, the plot of which is based on the famous song «Oh, Don't Go, Hrytsia, to the Party». The protagonist of the story, Hryts, fell in love with two girls at the same time, and paid for it with his life.

Book 2. Earth

The novel «Earth» is a real social and psychological drama in which the author skilfully portrays different characters. The heroes of her works become the personification of either virtue or degradation.

The novel shows how poverty breaks people, how some pass the test of purity of conscience, while others do not.

And the through motif of fratricide in the work encourages deep reflection on the meaning of human life and work, on human morality.