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.