The Bizarre Heart. Novels

Iryna Vilde is a writer, feminist, and author of the novel “The Richyn Sisters.” Her collection of short stories “The Bizarre Heart” is an intimate, psychologically rich text from the 1930s that conveys the atmosphere of the era and the depth of human experiences.
Each text contains tenderness and longing, sensitivity to the “elusive otherness” of any individual. This is literature about everyone who is looking for themselves in human relationships, in memory, in words.
This is literature that has a “light, like a spring hat, style,” which combines erotic frankness, family intuition, irony of fate, and “girlish” tenderness. This is how the poet Bohdan Ihor Antonych once described this collection. “The Bizarre Heart” is not always short stories in the classical sense, but rather emotionally accurate snapshots of life, sometimes framed in literary letters or confessional monologues. And it is this variability that makes reading lively and unexpected.