Vasyl' Zemljak. Lebedyna zhraja. (mp3). (Swan Flock)

I have to confess that my conscious acquaintance with quite a considerable part of Ukrainian literature took place without mediation of any text printed on paper. As it has appeared, a lot of my friends got acquainted with it in the same way – although all of us love and practice reading. Times pass... And the "Swan Flock" is one of those works that were read later already. And first, in this case, there was the movie. The famous "Babylon XX" – the film full of transparent poetry and inexpressible questions. The producer’s work by Ivan Mykolaychuk, in which he also played one of key roles. However, in this book there are practically no second-rate characters – everybody on his/her place lives volumetrically, brightly, deeply. That story seems to be simple, there are no verbal patterns in it for the sake of embellishment – but in its unhurried flow there is place for everything. And somehow unnoticeably the world, first outlined with geography of one village – acquires features full of meaningfulness common to the whole mankind. This world, quiet and smiling, raises such unhurried questions that it is impossible to escape, as they are inside of absolutely each of us. This Babylon is not space, not history. This Babylon is the soul. But here are no reproaches – only the story, questions, smile, forgiveness. Life. It flies as a swan flock – and sings...

Anton Jozhik Leyba (Hedgehog)

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