This book by Tamara Gundorova is an attempt to rethink the biography of Lesya Ukrainka, which intertwines illness and creativity, Ukraine and a foreign land, politics and literature, classics and modernity, love and death.
Relations with Kobylyanskaya as the embodiment of love, creative uplift and understanding. Trauma experienced at the bedside of terminally ill Merzhin-
skogo. Spiritual and intellectual closeness to Dragomanov. Marriage to Clement Kvitka. Finally, resistance to the established rules and laws of the patriarchal system, the "abnormality" of love, the fate of artistic madness that she learned in her creative moments, sanatorium tourism, which her illness doomed her to. All this was rooted in a special state of "otherness" of the writer, woman and "stranger" at home.
But at the same time, it gave Larisa Kosach-Kvitka the opportunity to gain true freedom and comprehend the Universal, transcultural perspective of the world's vision. A year before her death, she confessed to her mother: "...the story of Mavka can
just a woman to write." But the truth was that all her works could only be written by a woman