Valse mélancolique та інші новели (Ольга Кобилянська)

This article contains Olha Kobylianska’s complete collection До сьвіта (Lviv, 1905), presented under the title of its first story, Valse mélancolique, and kept in the original Zhelekhivka spelling. Its fourteen pieces include the novella of three young women, a painter, a student and a pianist, who share rooms; village sketches from Bukovyna; a dialogue on the education of women; a fable, a fairy tale and prose poems. Level C1 suits readers who handle long lyrical sentences in Ukrainian. You will practise the vocabulary of music, art and feelings, western words of Bukovyna and Galicia, and the old spelling with ся written apart and ї after consonants.