Selected correspondence against the background of the day: 1992–2002

This book presents the story of the long-standing friendship between one of the most prominent linguists of the 20th century, a leading emigration thinker, critic and cultural researcher, Yury Shevelyov-Sherekh (1908–2002), a professor at Columbia University in New York, and the writer Oksana Zabuzhko (born in 1960). . Their correspondence of 1992–2002 is accompanied by detailed comments by O. Zabuzhko, as well as a selection of their works discussed in the letters. The reader will not only get to know two prominent cultural figures, but also an exciting intellectual adventure in the stormy historical landscape of the turn of the century, seen through their eyes.