Seeing With Fresh Eyes: Shevchenko for a Modern Reader by Volodymyr Dibrova

Свіжим оком: Шевченко для сучасного читача (“Seeing With Fresh Eyes: Shevchenko for a Modern Reader”) presents an important and unhurried reading from Shevchenko’s famous works with a deep and witty commentary by Volodymyr Dibrova.

The author is a translator, literary critic and lecturer at Harvard University, and teaches Ukrainian language and literature to students from all over the world. In this collection of essays, avoiding simplification and total idealization, he “translates” some realities, contexts and reflects on the sources of the writer’s poetic influence. This book is aimed at enabling you to look at the messages of the texts “with fresh eyes”, and after rereading them, find your own Shevchenko and better understand yourself as Ukrainians. Just about the difficult and important. Interesting, fascinating and dynamic about literary texts and their influence on culture and society.

Designer Mykola Kovalchuk chose Bressay for the body copy; Osnova is used in the interior, and on the cover. Illustrations by Mari Kinovych.