In Uzhgorod, Andriy Lyubka presented the novel “Fama about Cyclists” (PHOTOS)

Yesterday, in the Transcarpathian Regional Universal Scientific Library, well-known Ukrainian writer, translator Andriy Lyubka presented the novel by Svetislav Basara "Fama about Cyclists".

    "Fama about Cyclists" is a masterpiece of Serbian postmodern prose, a witty intellectual detective, a rare book that is beloved by critics and readers alike. Andriy Lyubka, who translated the novel from Serbian and knows the writer personally, said that the author wrote more than forty novels, collections of stories, plays, essays. The novel "Fama about Cyclists" (1987) was proclaimed by Serbian literary critics as the best Serbian novel of the 1980s.

The plot tells about the members of the Secret Order of the Evangelical Cyclists, who meet in dreams and perform an important mission for humanity. One of the tasks of this order was designing the Great Mental Home. "In the chapters about the mental hospital with 20 million patients, the author wrote about his country, which in those years had approximately the same number of inhabitants. At that time, nobody knew that this state would soon indeed become a mental home, where everyone would be waging their own war with everyone around, that there would be a long-lasting conflict, which would take hundreds of thousands of lives," – the translator said.

 Uzhgorod presentation was the first presentation of this novel in Ukraine. Later, Andriy Lyubka will present it in other cities as well.

At the end of the event, the writer shared his creative plans – told about his new novel, which fans will be able to read in September.