Tetyana Trofymenko Novels Everything you Wanted to Know about Ukrainian Literature Book

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22 essays on Ukrainian novels from Kulish to Karpa. The book by Tatyana Trofimenko, a literary critic, or kritikotik, as she is known in the literary community, is devoted to landmark novels that reflected the realities of the era and captured the stylistic and attitudinal changes in art. The novels that tell us about the life and main problems of Ukrainians from the XIX to the first third of the XXI century. The author comprehends the works of Nechuya-Levitsky, Panas Mirnyi, Olga Kobylianska, Valerian Pidmogylnyi, Ivan Bagryanyi, 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 to prepare for the UPE, but above all an attempt to talk about the genre, how ideologies and social process influence creativity, and why there are still discussions about the "big Ukrainian novel". 

Number of pages: 304.