A Bizarre Heart. Novels — Iryna Vilde

A Bizarre Heart. Novels is a refined collection of novellas by Iryna Vilde, composed in the 1930s yet resonant with contemporary emotional insight. The volume (224 pages) invites readers into interior lives touched by longing, memory, moral tension, and the tenuous boundary between the ordinary and the uncanny. Vilde’s prose is elegant, delicate, at once intimate and richly suggestive. Each narrative—whether a letter, monologue, or lyric vignette—traces characters meditating on love, identity, alienation, and the silent fractures that underlie human connection.
This edition restores and presents these stories within the Non-canonical Canon series, offering modern readers a chance to rediscover an essential voice in Ukrainian women’s literature.