This book is an attempt to reconsider the biography of Lesya Ukrainka, in which illness and creativity, Ukraine and “foreign”, politics and literature, classics and modernity, love and death are intertwined.

Illness and writing. The birth of creativity from the trauma experienced while Merzhinsky was terminally ill. Spiritual and intellectual closeness to Drahomanov. Stosunka z Kobylyanska as a metaphor for women’s culture. The fate of the mystical god, which I knew in the moments of creative inspiration. Make Europe and sanatorium tourism more expensive. The status of “otherness” is like the recognition of a “new woman” and a “stranger” in the Fatherland. “Own” through the prism of historical and cultural exoticism. All this gave Larisa Kosach-Kvitsa the opportunity to walk in good health and become a prophetess of the people of the twentieth century.

In the rest of her life, Lesya Ukrainka knew her mother: “... the history of Mavka can only be woman write.” But the truth is that all of these works could only have been written by a woman who lived and created mit Todesverachtung, so as not to care about death.