Luboratsky

Anatol Svydnytsky's family chronicle "Lyuboratski" was published a long time after the writer's death, and partly because of this it remained out of the public's attention. Built partly on the author's own experience, the text introduces us to the family of a priest in Podillia, where step by step we observe how the contemporary education system, classism in society, and inferiority complex distort the lives of the Luboratskis' son and three daughters. Through sketches of seminary life and pictures of the life of the 19th-century peasantry, the drama of the degeneration of the lineage of one of the many Ukrainian families without a core of self-awareness unfolds.