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About the series:
This is a series of contemporary Ukrainian literature that is being created in our time, in Ukraine and abroad, and is a powerful testament to how strong and diverse the Ukrainian word and Ukrainian culture are today. This is especially valuable and important for a nation that is defending its right to be and create its own culture in a war. The series combines works by both well-known authors and bright debuts, because here everyone is among their own, there is a place for respectable poetry and light prose, drama and novel, essays and stories, critical essays and short stories. The works of the authors presented in the series are combined with visuals by Ukrainian artists whose paintings are presented on the covers of the books. Let's be among our own
About the book:
The publication presents analytical, literary-critical, literary, cultural and philosophical essays and articles by Anatoliy Dnistrovyi written over the past 25 years and dedicated to significant figures, themes and processes of both world literature and the Ukrainian literary tradition. "Panopticon. Literature" is a kind of "book of observations" by the author, a multi-vector analysis of literature, a critical review of his personal creative path in the context of the development of the Ukrainian literary process through the prism of cultural changes and global transformations in society. For a wide range of readers and anyone interested in professional literary analytics.
About the author:
Anatoliy Dnistrovyi is a novelist, poet, essayist, artist, and vlogger. He was born in 1974 in Ternopil. Member of PEN Ukraine, founder and member of the literary group "Friends of Eliot" (1993-1996). Graduated from the Department of History and Philology of the Mykola Gogol Nizhyn State Pedagogical Institute (1997), and defended his dissertation on the understanding of history by representatives of Ukrainian radical nationalism at the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (2000). D. in Philosophy (2001). He taught at the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv and Masaryk University (Brno, Czech Republic), worked as a researcher at the National Institute for Strategic Studies (Kyiv, Ukraine). He is the author of more than 25 books of poetry, prose, literary, political and philosophical essays, and collections of children's poems. Recent books: poetry collections Black Friday (2022), Days of Anxiety (2023), novels B-52 (2019), Patsyky (2020, fifth edition), Tibet on the Eighth Floor (2023, third edition), Grey Peina (2023), non-fiction Conversations with Intellectuals: Interviews of Ideas (2022) and The Battle for Life: Diary of 2022 (2024). Anatoliy Dnistrovyi's poetry, prose and essays have been translated into English, German, Italian, Czech, Polish, Estonian, Lithuanian, Georgian, Armenian, Serbian, Belarusian and have received several awards. As an artist, he has been working in graphics and easel painting since 2013. His personal exhibitions were held in galleries in Kyiv and Ternopil. Anatolii Dnistrovyi's paintings are kept in the National Museum of Taras Shevchenko, Kharkiv Literary Museum, in private collections in Ukraine, Moldova, France, and Canada. His latest exhibition: "Paper: Works by Candlelight" (Kyiv, PEN Ukraine Space, 2023), which was based on the paintings created by the artist by candlelight during the winter blackout in Kyiv in 2022-2023. On YouTube, the author has his own humanitarian and cultural channel Anatolii Dnistrovyi. In May 2022, he joined the Defence Forces of Ukraine. He is an officer.
