Yesterday, at an open lecture by Taras Luty, the key thesis was that the content of an essay is always a change - tangible, present, experienced; and these transformations concern both the individual and the world in which the person is a subject. In fact, an essay is always about meanings and subjectivity.

The mini-festival Days of Essays, organized jointly by the Kyiv-Mohyla Business School and the Ukrainian PEN, has started. This is the fourth festival this year. The initiative arose as a natural extension of the Yuri Shevelyov Prize, which celebrates the best book of artistic and scientific essays in Ukraine. For a week, the kmbs floor is transformed into a lecture and discussion platform for discussing essays as a literary genre, as a way of knowing the world and self-knowledge, as a practice that shapes and captures experiences. The mini-festival will help to get an idea of how diverse the texts we call "essays" are, how high the potential of this literary genre is for generating and translating meanings.

The program includes a series of lectures by famous Ukrainian essayists: Taras Luty, Andriy Bondar, Iryna Slavinska, Vira Ageeva. Writers and researchers Serhiy Zhadan, Ilya Kaminsky, Taras Prokhasko, Diana Klochko, and Mykhailo Palinchak will conduct a dialogue on literary essays.

The award ceremony of the Yuri Shevelyov Prize winner will take place within the framework of the festival. Traditionally: December 17 is the birthday of essayist, linguist and historian of Ukrainian literature Yuri Shevelyov.

The Essay Days mini-festival has started