Over the Black Sea

The first novel in Ukrainian literature about Odessa, which Nechuy-Levytsky calls in the masculine gender - Odessa. His cosmopolitan, merchant, epicurean Odesa is a space for love, fun, beauty and consumption. Against this background, two ideological conflicts unfold: national culture against cosmopolitanism and idealism against consumerism and materialism.

Intellectually, the novel is focused on the issue of the development of Ukrainian identity, and in terms of plot it is several love stories. The writer once again acts as a defender of women's rights. However, the most memorable from the work are the descriptions of the landscapes over the Black Sea and the relationships between people - simple, funny and eternally alive, which the cheerful Nechuy gave us.