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22 ESSAYS ON UKRAINIAN NOVELS
FROM KULISHA TO CARP
The book by Tetyana Trofymenko, a literary critic, or a critic, as she is called in the literary environment, is dedicated to iconic novels that reflected the realities of the time and recorded stylistic and worldview changes in art. Novels that tell us about the life and main problems of Ukrainians from the 19th to the first third of the 21st century.
The author interprets the works of Ivan Nechuy-Levytsky, Panas Myrny, Olga Kobylyanska, Valerian Pidmogilny, Ivan Bagryany, Iryna Wilde, as well as novels by Yuriy Andruhovych, Serhiy Zhadan, Oksana Zabuzhko, Maria Matios, Oleksandr Irvanets, Irena Karpa, and others. This is not a canon, not essays to prepare for the external examination, but primarily an attempt to talk about the genre, about how ideologies and the social process affect creativity, as well as why there are still discussions about the "great Ukrainian novel".