The book by culturologist Roman Korogodsky contains eight literary portraits - Victor Petrov (V. Domontovich), Yuri Shevelyov, Yuri Lutsky, Sergei Paradzhanov, Ivan Dzyuba, Eugene Sverstyuk, Mikhailina Kotsyubynska, Opanas Zalyvakha. The chosen genre is the optics through which the author comprehends the life of the individual in the conditions of the communist system. The book is about people who became key figures of Ukrainian culture of the twentieth century. They all balance between different moral imperatives. Their lives are filled with amazing contrasts - ups and downs. Numerous documents, testimonies of self-seekers, intelligence scientists and his own memoirs form a kind of essay style of the author. The publication retains the peculiarities of the author's vocabulary and syntax, but the spelling is unified to the modern.
For culturologists, literary critics, historians, humanities students and other fans of refined Ukrainian culture.