Deer have lived in the Carpathian mountain ranges since time imme
morial, since the very beginning of the world. Ar is a wise female deer,
the head of the Family. Mi (Ra) is an inquisitive grandson who wants to learn
about feelings, reincarnation, aspirations, thinking, the interconnection
of all living and non-living things, the secrets of life on earth, birth and
death. Ar helps him, instructs him – leads, like the entire Deer family.
The glorification of the family, its continuation under any circumstances
becomes the apotheosis of an intellectual novel-essay. For the poetess
Tetyana Hrytsan-Chonka, this work is the first significant attempt to de
clare herself as a prose writer.
Aphorism, the use of fresh metaphors, new poetic images, with a cons-
cious emphasis on colloquial