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The book Maidans and Magnates is, without exaggeration, innovative in content and form and truly relevant, as it reflects the main aspirations, movements of the souls and bodies of contemporary Ukrainians. It includes three poems, two of which are already well known not only to Ukrainian readers: "Night Talk with Europe" (2011), which critics called "a premonition of Euromaidan", has already been translated into five languages (English, French, Russian, Polish, Georgian) and published in Paris this year as a separate book.
Last year, Stanislav Bondarenko's book Picnic with a Billionaire (which includes Night Talk with Europe and the second clip poem Picnic with a Billionaire, or Injuries to Herbs) was also nominated for the Shevchenko Prize. Now we have a complete poetic trilogy, where the two previous works are connected to the last poem not only by the development of events and... hopes, but also by the same main characters (the magnate Ho, the poet Yaroslav, the Afghan Boroda), who act in different circumstances: on the Maidan and in the "under the Maidan". And if earlier these characters were antagonists-enemies, in the last poem they become associates. In Picnic with a Billionaire, the author, according to some critics, for the first time in our literature immerses the reader in the inner world of a Ukrainian oligarch who, although he feels uncomfortable in society, does not recognise himself as a Ukrainian.
But gradually, the secretive rich man Ho turns from a "new Russian" into a "new Ukrainian", now ‑after meeting with the Maidan protesters "on the firing line" and near the Maidan, where a "dream on the ruins" is born.‑laquo;dream on the ruins», where betrayal and espionage are exposed, where the heart of Europe beats, ‑he is united with the Afghan Boroda and the poet Yaroslav by a common goal of ‑fighting for Dignity and Freedom. The ‑tycoon becomes a conscious defender of human and state Dignity, a crucial ‑social phenomenon that Stanislav Bondarenko was also the first to comprehend.
