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Literary scholar Oleksandr Boychenko

Literary scholar Oleksandr Boychenko

2007, 28 min

Chernivtsi State Television and Radio Company, 2007. The issue of the program "Reflections on the Intimate" includes an interview with a literary scholar, teacher at the Chernivtsi National University named after Yu. Fedkovych, literary critic Oleksandr Boychenko, in which he reveals the following topics: the importance of books as a modern source of information; the founding of the magazine "Train 76"; the current state of Ukrainian literature; publishing Ukrainian authors abroad; problems of Ukrainian literature; the presence of bad literature; attitudes towards different book formats; financing the publication of foreign literature.

On the video: a blitz poll of citizens about books as a modern source of information; paper and electronic versions of the publication "Potyag 76"; bookstore; printing of books; comments by the senior seller of the "Nauka" bookstore Mykola Nazimko; director of the "Bukinist" bookstore Marina Libanova (speaks russian); streets of Chernivtsi; monument to Taras Shevchenko.

The following people worked on the program: author — Halyna Komerzan; cameraman — Serhiy Trebysh; lighting — Vitaliy Pavlenko; editing by Volodymyr Zenk, Vitaliy Yaskevich.

Reference: Oleksandr Boychenko is a Ukrainian writer, literary critic, essayist, laureate of the Yuriy Shevelyov Literary Prize.