This is a thrilling intellectual trip through centuries, cultures and confessions searching for the "Ukraine we have lost". The key to it is the "Lesya Ukrainka" code deciphered by O.Zabuzhko. An aristocrat and heretic, heiress of an ancient knight family and developer of the tradition of gnosticism, this most prominent Ukrainian remained not understood in the soviet Ukraine and almost unknown to the wide public – in the independent Ukraine. Why? The answer to this question is the great historical drama of the "hidden war" that Oksana Zabuzhko with courage characteristic of her brings back from oblivion and, based on the highly rich literary and historical material, restores to its full. This is not only a fundamental history and literature study or a refined philological exegetics. This is also a book about out contemporaneity – about what a high price we pay for the loss and oblivion of the centuries-old knight culture."
The current edition – compared with the previous one – does not contain any significant alterations or additions. What's different: an updated design, a few illustrations (b\w) in the text, as well as Oksana Zabuzhko's preface to the 3rd edition and the Post Scriptum.
In Ukrainian.
Type of the edition: hard cover
Format: 145x200 mm
Number of pages: 656
Publisher: KOMORA, Kyiv
Contents:
- Peredmova do tret‘oho vydannja
- Peredmova do druhoho vydannja
- Proloh
- Dorozhnja mapa: Rozdil za rozdilom
I. "Odynokyy muzhchyna" chy Velyka Khvora? Kul‘turna prezentatsija herojini: tilo jak tekst
II. Mifolohichna pryhoda zhinky-Orfeja i ljubovnyy dyskurs: konflikt interpretatsiy
III. Istorija jeresi – I. Mistychnyy shljub i "relihija ljubovi"
IV. Istorija jeresi – II. U poshukakh Absoljutu. Faust-muzhchyna i Faust-zhinka
V. Lytsari pid zaborolom: narodnyky chy shljakhta? (Do henezy ukrajins‘koji intelihentsiji)
VI. "Tayna imeny". Istorija ordenu: symvol viry
VII. Istorija ordenu: final. Herb lileji. Notre Dame Dolorosa i jiji pomsta
VIII. Nasha Slavna Zhirondysta: relihiyna al‘ternatyva v sekuljarnu dobu. Vstup do istoriji khamokratiji
- Post Scriptum
- Epiloh
- Pokazhchyk imen