The work of the outstanding writer-thinker, talented historian-novelist Yuri Mushketyk (1929–2019) is aimed at creating the native people as a Ukrainian nation. The author wrote on modern and historical topics, the historical development of the state and the role of the individual in it. Most of his novels, short stories, and short stories are artistically masterful reflections on human nature, the ups and downs, the cataclysms of the human soul, and eternal spiritual values. The writer is concerned about the incompleteness of historical memory in the public consciousness, not only ancient but also the twentieth century, which was brutally ruled by the totalitarian communist regime. The writer realistically portrayed this tragic truth in the novel The Road to the Unknown. The tragic fate of the protagonist of this story was led by a "foreign, bad, evil" government, whose rulers - "non-humans". In the works of the "small genre", short stories and short stories, the bitter truth of the twentieth century and past centuries also grows to a high and pure artistic generalization ("The Sweet Life of Onyky the Hare", "On Bread", etc.). The Musio publishing house published books by Yu. Mushketyk: "Yasa", "Brother to Brother", "Hetman's Treasure", "Death of Socrates", "The Last Hetman". Chase "," Hetman, son of the hetman "," Bridgehead ". Cruel Mercy ", as well as in the series" Author's Collections "was published by" I'm coming for you ".
