The book describes the life in Soviet- and Nazi-occupied Lviv from the perspective of personal history. Its main focus is on the behavior of people who faced mortal danger. However, this does not exhaust the non-conventional features of the narrative, which is based on the diaries, memoirs, letters, and even transcripts of interrogations. It tells about the fates of people, of Polish, Ukrainian, and Jewish intellectuals, their complex relationships, and also the variations of solidarity and hostility underpinned by courage and fear.
The book encourages its readers to reflect on the extent to which the present images of World War II have been shaped under the pressure of national narratives, (more…)
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Nobody knows how to explain the mystery of fame. Often a person who has spent all his life at the very core of events falls into oblivion right after his death. Vasyl Stus became renowned only after his reburial in Ukraine in 1989. What was the reason? Was it his poetry? His heroic life? His irreconcilable position? Or his ability to be compassionate? In his attempt to answer these and other questions, the poet’s son Dmytro masterfully combines the objective data of Vasyl Stus’s biography with his own private recollections and observations about his father. His book offers a paradoxical interrelation of contexts combining the highbrow academic style with a novelistic one. This book shows Vasyl Stus through the eyes of his son and researcher against a background of “belated nation-making”. 
В книзі представлені переклади українською поетичних творів філософа, літературознавця, перекладача й письменниці Дебори Фоґель (1900?–1942). В ліричних збірках «Фігури днів» і «Манекени» знайшли відображення погляди автора на тогочасні життєві цінності, переконання в важливості модернізаціїта урівноправнення культури їдишу, глибоке відчуття поетом модерного Львова, а також її особисті переживання. 
В этой книге рассматривается становление культуры
Второе, дополненное, издание книги «Живая натура: Картины Романа Балаяна» (Всесоюзное творческо-производственное объединение «Киноцентр». М., 1989). Эссе о фильмах одного из самых значимых режиссеров 1970–80-х годов, определившего героя, темы, сам нерв ушедшей эпохи, сопровождаются беседами с Балаяном. 
