This time I wanted to read a beautifully designed book about female writers, and here it is: 鈥淣ight on Venus: 113 Women Writers Who Shine in the Dark鈥� by Hanna Uliura.
In this opus, the Ukrainian critic dedicates a three-page-long essay to each lady author from her list. The list is as subjective as possible: classical names coexist with unconventional and rebellious authoress of the 20th century, almost all female Nobel laureates are mentioned, many poetesses, creators of small forms, the geography of creativity covers roughly the whole world, different time frames and various worldviews.
After Uliura鈥檚 previous book 鈥�365鈥�, I was mentally more prepared for the array of information that would fall upon me :)) Yes, and 113 stories are still more digestible than 365.
On the one hand, it鈥檚 interesting to expand your horizons with knowledge about new creative personalities; on the other hand, the heterogeneity of the essay structures is affected. Often, there was little about the biographies of penwomen and some kinds of informative data about them. The central place was given to the critical text by Hanna Uliura, which seems to be not bad, but it鈥檚 unlikely that many readers are familiar with all the works under discussion.
The book has a style, and the toil was invested there. That can鈥檛 be taken away.