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Lesia Ukrainka (1871–1913) is a star of the first magnitude in the world literary firmament. Her artistic ideas, images, and plots are deeply rooted in the European cultural space and, with thousands of threads, connect the Ukrainian spirit with the search for answers to the fundamental questions of the existence of the individual and humanity. The brilliant writer, using ancient, biblical, and medieval motifs associated with the history of different peoples, wrote about what confuses the mind and heart of a caring person: love and betrayal, faith and deafness, freedom and slavery, eternity and transience. Lesia Ukrainka's texts are rich in metaphor, allegory, and reminiscences with world classics, but, despite all the exotic garb, they always focus on Ukrainian history, as if refracted in drops of foreign experience. The author's legacy has given our national culture a refined intellectual brilliance and has largely shaped our national resilience, becoming part of the canon of Ukrainian literature. Lesia Ukrainka's unique artistic world is distinguished by tension, original plot lines, strong literary characters, and complex and fascinating resolution of conflicts.
This edition contains the most famous dramatic poems by Lesia Ukrainka: "Oderzhyma" (1901), "Na ruinakh" (1904), "V catacombs" (1905), "Cassandra" (1907), "Boiarynia" (1910), "Orgy" (1913), as well as the dramatic extravaganza "Lisova pisnia" (1911). The mentioned texts raise eternal questions of the meaning of life, in particular the problem of personal and national liberation, faith as a prerequisite for progress, love - the basis of human nature, the multifaceted nature of evil. And readers must invent the answers themselves, because the cultural codes in Lesia Ukrainka are skillfully hidden behind the architecture of the works. This is modern literature, because it describes what hurts us today and heals our wounds, encourages reflection and inspires hope.