Vasyl Zemliak writes about familiar, at first glance, realities: the Ukrainian village of the 1920s and 1940s, the revolution, the destruction of noble estates, the first communes, collective farms, and World War II. However, everything is presented in a completely unusual perspective.
Old Babylon on Pobuzhzhia, peasants digging up a collection of ancient weapons under a pear tree, a local philosopher reading Plato and talking about Taureans and Scythians, a swing built by Singer, a sewing machine sales agent, to give his daughters in marriage, Fabian the goat becoming back to the firing squad - all this is woven into a whimsical novel against the background of a great story.
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 Pidmohylnyi and Barhianyi to Khvylovyi and Johansen, 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.
