This bilingual collection of essays celebrates Marko Pavlyshyn’s outstanding contribution to the study of modern and contemporary Ukrainian literature and culture. With its many methodological approaches and the variety of periods, authors and texts that it analyzes, the book reflects and builds on Pavlyshyn’s willingness to modernize our understanding of Ukrainian literature as an instrument of communication between authors, readers and the nation from the late eighteenth century to the present day. Hopefully these essays will inspire readers and scholars to continue their journey through Ukrainian culture, in a context profoundly marked by the role of literary texts as agents of nation building and social evolution. Alessandro Achilli is Lecturer in Ukrainian Studies at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. His main research interests are in the field of modern and contemporary Ukrainian literature, with particular attention to poetry. He is the author of a monograph on Vasyl' Stus (Florence 2018). Dmytro Yesypenko is a researcher at the Taras Shevchenko Institute of Literature of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. The area of his specialization and interests includes issues of textual scholarship and scholarly editing (digital editing as well), book history, and the Ukrainian literary process of the nineteenth – early twentieth centuries. Serhy Yekelchyk is Professor of Slavic Studies and History at the University of Victoria and current president of the Canadian Association for Ukrainian Studies. He is the author of seven books on Ukrainian history and culture with a special focus on identity construction during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.