Vivant Lesya Ukrainka. Bücher der Sibylle auf Ukrainisch

This book is an attempt to rethink the biography of Lesya Ukrainka, where illness and creativity, Ukraine and "foreignness," politics and literature, classicism and modernity, love and death are intertwined. Illness and writing. The birth of creativity from the trauma she experienced at the deathbed of the gravely ill Merzhynskyi. Spiritual and intellectual closeness to Drahomanov. Relationships with Kobylyanskaya as a metaphor for women's culture. The fate of artistic madness that she experienced in moments of creative elevation. Travels in Europe and sanatorium tourism. The status of "otherness" as an acknowledgment of a "new woman" and a "foreigner" in her homeland. "Own" through the prism of historical and cultural exoticism. All of this allowed Larisa Kosach-Kvittsa to forge her own path and become a prophetess of the early 20th century. In the last year of her life, Lesya Ukrainka confessed to her mother: "...only a woman can write the story of Mavka." But the truth is that all her works could only have been written by a woman who lived and created in defiance of death, thus in disregard of death.