To the Gate of Light

The book by the cultural critic Roman Korohodskyi contains eight literary portraits of Viktor Petrov (V. Domontovych), Yurii Shevelov, Yurii Lutskyi, Serhii Parajanov, Ivan Dziuba, Yevhen Sverstiuk, Mykhailyna Kotsiubynska, and Opanas Zalyvakha. The chosen genre is an optic through which the author comprehends the life of an individual under the communist system. The book tells the story of people who became key figures in twentieth-century Ukrainian culture. All of them are balancing between different moral imperatives. Their lives are filled with amazing contrasts, ups and downs.

Numerous documents, testimonies of self-reported authors, research by scholars, and the author's own memories form a peculiar essayistic style. The publication preserves the author's peculiarities of vocabulary and syntax, but the spelling is unified with the modern one.

For culturologists, literary critics, historians, humanities students, and other admirers of refined Ukrainian culture.