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The City of Delayed Action is a novel by Ukrainian writer Anatolii Dnistrovyi that explores life in a modern city.
24:33:42 is a novel by Ukrainian writer Larisa Denysenko that blends psychological and social themes.
Radio Night is one of Yuri Andrukhovych’s most atmospheric novels, combining elements of an adventure story, a political thriller, and a philosophical confession.
“Anthology of Ukrainian Gothic Prose” is a unique publication that explores the “dark” side of Ukrainian literature. The best-known edition is the two-volume anthology edited by literary scholar Yuriy Vynnychuk.
The story “Garlic Juice” by contemporary Ukrainian writer Ivan Andrusyak is one of the most striking attempts to revitalize the traditions of Ukrainian Gothic literature in the modern era. It is a story that skillfully balances on the line between classic “horror” and ironic postmodernism.
“Vorokhtarium” is not just a book, but an intellectual performance captured on paper. It is the result of a several-day “retreat” by three intellectual friends—Yuriy Andrukhovych, Oleksandr Boichenko, and Orest Drul—in Vorokhta, in the Carpathians.
“Lovers of Justice” is one of Yuri Andrukhovych’s most famous novels, which the author himself describes as “para-historical.” It is a collection of stories united by the themes of crime, punishment, and the irony of fate.
This anthology of Ukrainian drama from the classical period (19th century) brings together the works of the founders of modern Ukrainian literature and theater. Key authors include Ivan Kotlyarevsky (“Natalka Poltavka”), Hryhorii Kvitka-Osnovyanenko (“Shelmenko the Orderly”), Taras Shevchenko (“Nazar Stodolia”), and Mykhailo Starytsky (“It Was Not Meant to Be,” “Oh, Don’t Go, Hrytsiu…”). Their works laid the foundations for professional theater and democratic literature.
The second phase of the “Anthology of Ukrainian Drama” represents the golden age of the national theater. It marks the transition from depictions of everyday life to profound psychological drama and global modernism.
“Radio Night” is an adventure-philosophical novel about the musician-revolutionary Yosyp Rotsky, who becomes an exile following the defeat of the uprising.
“Felix Austria” is the best-known novel by Sofia Andrukhovych (daughter of Yuri Andrukhovych), which became a true literary bestseller and was successfully adapted into a film titled “The Devoted.”
