Lesya Ukrainka. The Sibyl's Books

For readers aged 16+

This book is an attempt to rethink the biography of Lesya Ukrainka, in which illness and creativity, Ukraine and "foreign lands," politics and literature, classics and modernity, love and death are intertwined.

In "Lesya Ukrainka. The Sibyl's Books," Tamara Hundorova seeks to present not the literary icon that Larysa Kosach was made into, but a living, contradictory, sentimental, and imperfect personality. The author guides readers through the thorny paths of Ukrainka's formation and reveals sharp moments from her life. All this is combined with an analysis of her most important texts and the history of her intellectual feat.

Lesya Ukrainka's work is a mysterious ocean of meanings, in which love and pain, anger and struggle, faith in light and thoughts of death – which constantly shadowed her, and which the writer had the courage to scorn – are intertwined. To fully immerse oneself in this world and understand Larysa Petrivna, one needs not just to read her words but to feel them with one's heart, and it is precisely in this that the work "Lesya Ukrainka" will assist.