Melankholiia of Stepan Charnetskyi

[1] It tells the story of the difficult fate of one of the members of the Lviv literary group "Moloda Muza", the poet Stepan Charnetskyi, who is also the author of short stories and feuilletons, a theater and music critic, and the author of the essay "History of Ukrainian Theater in Galicia".

[2] The writer actualizes the issue of the artist's involvement in the Riflemen's cohort, explores the history of the song "Chervona kalyna", supplements the poet's life story with various details,[3] and also uses archival materials, memoirs of the poet's contemporaries, in particular his daughter Oleksandra Kuchma-Charnetska.

[2] Valerii Shevchuk, Laureate of the Taras Shevchenko National Prize of Ukraine, was most attracted to the book by the fact that the author showed a deep interest in the Galician "Molodomuzivtsi" who created the phenomenon of early modernism not only in poetry but also in prose.

Charnetskyi himself, seeing in his literary heritage an affirmative answer based on the presence of the war theme in his lyrics as the author's existential reaction to geopolitical events.

[3] In 2006, Nadiia Morykvas was awarded the Bohdan Lepkyi Lviv Regional Prize in the prose category for her book Melankholiia of Stepan Charnetskyi.