The first novel in Ukrainian literature about Odesa, which Nechuy-Levytsky refers to in the masculine form as Odesa, his cosmopolitan, merchant, epicurean Odesa is a space for love, fun, beauty, and consumption. Against this backdrop, two ideological conflicts unfold: national culture versus cosmopolitanism and idealism versus consumerism and materialism. Intellectually, the novel focuses on the development of Ukrainian identity, and in terms of plot, it is a series of love s...
