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Artem Chekh znovu napysav pro viĭnu - i znovu ne pro tu. Tobto ne pro t͡si͡u. Tomu, z odnoho boku, "Song of the Open Road" moz͡hna rozhli͡adaty i͡ak z͡hanrovo-stylistychnu zabavku, pryhodnyt͡sʹko-istorychnu hru v Ameryku. Kolyshniĭ kripak z ukraïnsʹkoho sela u skladi Rosiĭsʹkoï imperiï, opynyvshysʹ v epit͡sentri amerykansʹkoï trahediï, vreshti-resht stai͡e vtilenni͡am amerykansʹkoï mriï. Ale, z druhoho - serĭoznishoho - boku, vidkrytyĭ shli͡akh holovnoho heroi͡a - t͡seĭ shli͡akh hetʹ vid Moskvy, shli͡akh krizʹ viĭnu do svobody, shli͡akh vid rosii͡anyna v prolozi do ukraïnt͡si͡a v epilozi. A shche z i͡akohosʹ boku, lehko sobi ui͡avyty zni͡atyĭ za motyvamy t͡sʹoho romanu ihrovyĭ filʹm. Chorno-bilyĭ filʹm pro spovnenu symvolichnykh znachenʹ podoroz͡h zi Skhodu na Zakhid, do samoho sebe i svoho vichnoho domu. I saundtrek: slova Volta Vitmena, muzyka Nila I͡Anha.

Artyom Cech wrote again about the war — and again about the wrong one. That is, not about this one. Therefore, on the one hand," Song of the Open Road " can be considered as a genre-stylistic toy, an adventure-historical game in America. A former serf from a Ukrainian Village in the Russian Empire, caught in the epicenter of an American tragedy, eventually becomes the embodiment of the American dream. But, on the other — more serious — side, the path of the main character is open — this path away from Moscow, the path through war to freedom, the path from the Russian in the prologue to the Ukrainian in the epilogue. And from some point of view, it is easy to imagine a feature film based on this novel. A black-and-white film about a journey full of symbolic meanings from East to West, to yourself and your eternal home. And the soundtrack: words by Walt Whitman, music by Neil Young.