The art album shows another aspect of the creative avant-garde phenomenon of Kyiv. The album is a sort of continuation of the Culture League: Art Vanguard of 1910-1920’s book. The first book presented works of the artists of Cultures League, the second one draws attention to one of the remarkable but little studied genres – book design. The album contains reproductions of works by N. Altman, M. Epstein, G. Inger, El. Lyssytsky, I.-B. Rybak, A. Tyschler, J. Chaikov, M. Chagall, N. Shyfrin, S. Shore. (more…)
This autobiographical book is a true story that spans the years of the Holocaust lived underground and the postwar years of the author’s life. Despite considerable losses, sufferings, and hardships, Mina had tremendous strength of spirit and love of life, which inspired her beloved ones. Under the difficult conditions of underground life, she managed to bring up her daughter, and eventually to realize her medical ambitions. The power of her spirit is the undisputed model for future generations. (more…)
“Memory keepers” were in ancient the name of those who stored and handed down to descents family histories – the family memories, and therefore about themselves. So it is not by chance that the family and personal story of Father Patrick Desbois is called so. These memories are unfolding on the backdrop of Ukrainian peasants’ remembrances about mass murders of Jews during the German occupation, becoming as a part of the common web of cultural, national, and universal memory of the Holocaust. (more…)
Czesław Miłosz is among the classics of Polish literature, and those who formed the modern face of the polish culture of the late twentieth century. This Nobel Laureate’s essay collection presents to Ukrainian readers the brilliant intellectual, his spiritual biography, set on geographic coordinates (Vilnuis – Warsaw – Paris – Berkeley – Krakow), and the major events of the twentieth century. Expressive portraits of poet’s friends and colleagues – Jerzy Giedroyc, Stanisław Vincenz, Witold Gombrowicz, Thomas Venclova, Yosif Brodskyi – are amazingly presented in the book.
Odessa is not only the name of a city but also the name of a myth. The theme of this book refers to the contribution of Russian literature of the XX century to the construction of this “Odessa myth”. The city gave the world many talented writers who, in turn, gave this city to the world. Unique images of the city appear with texts by I. Bunin, K. Paustovskyi, I. Babel, I. Ilf and E. Petrov, V. Kataev, Y. Olesha. All this was skillfully combined and presented to the readers by a Dutch writer Jan Paul Hinrichs. (more…)
