"Andrii Lahovskyi" is an autobiographical novel that became one of the key texts of Ukrainian modernism and broke the taboo on public discussion of topics such as sexual orientation and the right to be yourself.
In the center of the plot is an intellectual, a book writer, and a professor who constantly reflects on his conditions, desires, and feelings and tries to survive in a traditional society. The hero's homosexual orientation becomes an important element of the plot.
This is a story about division and loneliness. He is looking for love, but not among women, but among men; he is looking for family happiness; he believes in high ideals that are being destroyed, he condemns himself to cabinet-making and asceticism, but he cannot withstand the temptation. In the end, Lahovskyi remains too dependent on the burden of traditions or simply incapable of decisive rebellion but chooses for himself the opportunity to remain "as he is."
About the series "Non-canon canon"
Thinking about the canon of Ukrainian literature, only a few names from the school curriculum come to mind: Shevchenko, Franko, and Nechuy-Levytskyi. Although in reality, this list is much more extensive and more diverse.
Before you are the series "Non-canon canon", with the help of which we want to talk about all those we did not know, whose texts we read without understanding the context of the reality of the time. Before you are a series designed to rediscover familiar strangers. You will find a range of Ukrainian authors and their works - from Pidmohylny and Barhyany to Khvylovy and Johansen, from an elegant intellectual novel to a dynamic adventure, from an elegant intellectual novel to a dynamic adventure, from innovative urban prose to psychological texts.
Keys accompany each text for reading from Ukrainian literary experts. They will tell you what to pay attention to and help you look at the texts of Ukrainian classics in a new way.
