Valerian Podmohylyny. City

In the simplest reading, the novel "The City" by Valerian Pidmogilny is the story of an ambitious young man who moves from the village to Kyiv and builds a new life there. He is often compared with the hero of Maupassant's "Dear Friend" and self-confident and indiscriminate conquerors of social heights from Balzac's stories. However, for Podmohylyny, this is not just a career story. He places the life of Stepan Radchenko in the historical and cultural context of Ukraine at that time.

Radchenko, a marginal and an outsider, purposefully shapes himself throughout the novel, gets an education, and joins the intellectual and creative elite. The surrounding world seems to him more and more complicated.

Among other things, the novel "City", written in 1927, testified to an incredibly important achievement of the national revolution: the return of urban space under Ukrainian cultural jurisdiction. The era of humiliating self-restraint within the framework of domestic rusticity was left behind, Kyiv once again became the center of a powerful artistic renaissance.

Year of publication: 2022.
Number of pages: 368.
Cover: soft.
Size: 130x200 mm.