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Mykola Hoholʹ, Vasylʹ Stefanyk, Olena Teliha, Ivan Bahri͡anyĭ, Mykhaĭlo Kot͡si͡ubynsʹkyĭ, Mykola Khvylʹovyĭ - klasyky, pro i͡akykh, zdai͡etʹsi͡a, my znai͡emo vse. Odnak, shcho bude, i͡akshcho chytaty ïkhni tvory, i͡ak upershe? Propuskaty ïkhni͡e z͡hytti͡a cherez vlasni dosvidy ta postiĭno zapytuvaty: i͡aki buly stosunky z batʹkamy? Chy svidomo vony obraly ukraïnsʹku movu? I͡Akymy pidlitkamy buly? Chy formuvala ïkh populi͡arna masova literatura? Z i͡akymy problemamy stykalysi͡a, koly ïm bulo dvadt͡si͡atʹ? I͡Akyĭ neprostyĭ z͡hytti͡evyĭ vybir stoi͡av pered nymy trydt͡si͡atylitnimy, koly na ukraïnsʹku zemli͡u prykhodyv cherhovyĭ teror? Chy i͡e pryzabuti ĭ malovidomi shedevry poza zvychnym kanonom, i͡aki tak aktualʹni zaraz?<br><br>Oleksandr i Pavlo Mykhedy, syn i batʹko, pysʹmennyk i literaturoznavet͡sʹ, zaproshui͡utʹ u mandrivku dvoma stolitti͡amy ukraïnsʹkoï literatury - vid rozpovideĭ pro z͡hytti͡a klasykiv do rozmovy pro pokolinni͡a ukraïnt͡siv, na chyi͡u doli͡u shchorazu vypadai͡utʹ z͡hakhlyvi vyprobuvanni͡a.

Nikolai Gogol, Vasily Stefanik, Elena Teliga, Ivan Bagryany, Mikhail Kotsyubinsky, Nikolai Khvylevoy are classics that we seem to know everything about. However, what happens if you read their works as if for the first time? Skip their lives through their own experiences and constantly ask: what was their relationship with their parents like? Did they consciously choose the Ukrainian language? What kind of teenagers were you? Did popular mass literature shape them? What problems did they face when they were twenty? What difficult life choice did they face when they were thirty years old, when another terror came to the Ukrainian land? Are there any forgotten and little-known masterpieces outside the usual canon that are so relevant now?

Alexander and Pavel Mikhedi, son and father, writer and literary critic, invite you to travel through two centuries of Ukrainian literature — from stories about the life of classics to conversations about the generation of Ukrainians who each time face terrible trials.