Our publication acquaints the general public with the short prose of Emma Andievska (b. 1931), who is a prominent representative of modernism in Ukrainian literature. Although the artist has lived most of her life abroad, she has been writing in Ukrainian all these years. And the homeland recognized the skill of the writer - in 2018 Andievskaya received the National Literary Prize. Taras Shevchenko.
The writer emphasizes the great role of the subconscious in her work, in her works everyday life coexists with phantasmagoria, prose of life - with mysticism. Yes, in her stories there is Mr. D., who can buy a demon, or a person whose nose is full of excitement wool, which has wonderful properties, and around live ordinary people who are busy with everyday affairs, and the neighbor's child - a girl with yellow pigtails - is actually death. This is life ...
