Legendary short plays by a cult Ukrainian author Les Podervianskyi are now in English!
Many in Ukraine refer to Les Podervianskyi just as "The Artist". He is known and loved across generations, and his legendary short plays are quoted daily by thousands if not millions of Ukrainians.
And now you know have a chance to read them for the first time in English! The book contains 10 short plays and a bonus short novel.
All books were printed in Kyiv despite sirens and blackouts.
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"Les Podervianskyi - an iconic representative of the Ukrainian underground, born in a renowned family of artists, mastermind behind the “Club of Aesthetic Disobedience”, an “Aesthet on the Barricade”, a “Classic from the Catacombs”, a womanizer, a painter, a playwright, a poet, a tall handsome man with an aristocratic last name, Ukraine’s chief swearer, a traveller, a romantic, a person of art…
Talking about bright personalities is easy - you can go on forever. For my part, I can add and call him by that untranslatable but deeply meaningful Ukrainian word – Mytets’ – The Artist. He himself calls himself a painter."
- Yuri Yefimov, a friend
The book was translated and designed by Roman Fomov - a Kyiv-based artist. @nine.cans.of.ravioli