Valeriy Shevchuk: Four Novels
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The parable novel “On a Humble Field” observes the epoch of the young Ukrainian Christianity in its confrontation against paganism on a background of painful contradictions between the church dogma and real life.

“Eye of the Abyss” is a dystopia, written after the collapse of the USSR. According to the author, “this is the allusion of totalitarianism, which might be named “the House of the black world… with the help of this novel I seemed to sweep the soot of this black world out of myself, as when cleaning chimneys”.
Any attempt to serve any ideological system is sooner or later to collapse, because the human nature with its immense Divine origin is impossible to fit into any mindset scheme artificially created by human mind. The Orthodox culture of the Middle Ages is vividly depicted in this novel.

Extraordinary flexible, moving subtly from the real to the unreal, the author tells us about the relativity of everything apart from good and evil in his most uncanny yet most candid novel called “The Murrain”.

The eternal discourse of sin and its punishment has been dwelled upon in the novella “The Confession”. A priest and a young scribe grope after the true essence of the sin. Diverse were their transgressions, but equally severe their punishment: both of them were to find themselves in the form of werewolves…