The border of the 19th–20th centuries brought many changes to world philosophy, politics, and art. Vitalism was replaced by decadence, realism was replaced by modernism, the fin de siecle ended, and the revival began. In Ukrainian literature, it became bloody and "shot". Despite this, our artists tried not only to keep pace with foreign, non-colonized colleagues but also very often formed the vanguard of the development of world processes.
Evidence of this is, in particular, the works of erotic (sic!) content, which came from the pen of the classics and luminaries of Ukrainian literature. V. Vynnychenko, O. Kobylianska, N. Kobrynska, H. Kosynka, M. Kotsiubynskyi, A. Krymskyi, A. Krushelnytskyi, S. Levynskyi, A. Liubchenko, H. Mykhailychenko, M. Mohylianskyi, S. Pylypenko, V. Pidmohylnyi, V. Polishchuk, K. Polishchuk, O. Storozhenko, I. Franko, H. Khotkevych, M. Cheremshyna, M. Cherniavskyi — how did they fall in love 100 years ago? More precisely, how they wrote about it - despite oppression and impoverishment! They created sensual and frank, sometimes intimate and erotic prose. The most refined works of Ukrainian classics about passion and desire were included in the anthology "The Secret Adventure".
