Under the starry sky

Hrushevsky left behind a thousand pages of artistic heritage. This collection contains sixteen of his stories and a memoir, “How I Was Once a Fiction Writer.”

These works testify to the author’s path in fine writing: from a populist who dreams of literature as a public cause to a modernist who releases the “closed children” of his thought. Hrushevsky, a writer following Kant, invites us to look at the starry sky above us and at the moral law within us.

Hrushevsky did not work as a fiction writer for long, but his works fascinated contemporary writers, such as Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky, with the depth of the issues raised and his calm philosophical style. For a long time, Hrushevsky was silenced in the history of Ukrainian literature because of his political and public activities. Finally, today he is fully returning to the readership, and this book demonstrates the thematic and genre diversity of his artistic output.