Unacceptable gambit

Creative work of Lina Kostenko through the eyes of Ivan Dzyuba

Both in the investigation of literature labours and in chess there are its own variants of a debut. Classic approach is when you at once start considering the works (or as it is said today – texts) of a writer. Without detailed and loquacious consideration of its life journey, without captious and many cited exposition of views on his creative work, without the protracted investigation of his mutual relations with contemporaneity, power, epoch and other categories. In one word, without an introduction for tens of pages which proceeds the most important and essential - thoughtful and analytical reading of writer’s lines, images, ideas.

Yaroslav HOLOBORODKO