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22 ESSAYS ABOUT UKRAINIAN ROMANCE FROM KULISH TO KARPA

The book by Tetiana Trofymenko, a literary critic, or criticism, as she is called in the literary community, is dedicated to the iconic novels that reflected the realities of the time and recorded stylistic and ideological changes in art. The novels tell us about the life and main problems of Ukrainians from the nineteenth to the first third of the twenty-first century. The author comprehends the works of Ivan Nechuy-Levytsky, Panas Myrnyi, Olha Kobylianska, Valeriy Pidmohylnyi, Ivan Bahrianyi, Iryna Wilde, as well as novels by Yuriy Andrukhovych, Serhiy Zhadan, Oksana Zabuzhko, Maria Matios, Oleksandr Irvants, Irena Karpa, and others. This is not a canon, not an essay for preparing for the EIT, but rather an attempt to talk about the genre, about how ideologies and the social process influence creativity, and about why there are still discussions about the "great Ukrainian novel."