Emancipationist. Short Stories and Novellas

The classics should be re-read, if only so that the malice of the day does not close the perspective and does not take away the life-saving ability to distinguish between the big and the small, the important and the lost.

​The short stories and novellas organized by Vira Aheieva prove that Marko Vovchok fully deserves the title of "originator of domestic psychological prose." The depth and sophistication of the analysis of the mental states of her characters attracts and amazes even today. As well as the ability to ironically deconstruct the pathetic romantic stylistics and rhetoric of the sublime and magnificent.

Considering the fact that the author often turns to the motif of arbitrariness and dependence, violence that manifests itself at micro levels, in relationships between the closest people, her prose can also be called a kind of study of the very nature of evil, which cannot be avoided in human relationships to this day.