Эta knyha - zhyzneopysanye odnoho yz velychayshykh ukraynskykh poэtov KhKh veka. Rech' ydet o potomke blahorodnoho ukraynskoho roda, v kotorom yz pokolenyia v pokolenye prodolzhalas' bor'ba dvukh dush, ukraynskoy y pol'skoy, sыne "toho Tadeia", vospytannyke kyevskoy Staroy Hromadы, iarkom predstavytele neoklassycheskoy piaterky.

Vprochem, k "chystote y prostote" neoklassytsyzma molodoy khudozhnyk shel, perezhyv peryod uvlechenyia "temnыmy bashniamy" symvolyzma, hrekhovnыmy soblaznamy, "iadom volshebnыm". Yskusstvo ravnovesyia utverdylos' posle opыta opyumnыkh vydenyy, narkotycheskykh paradyzov, эstetyzatsyy zla.

Yshcha novыkh tsennostey v pokynutom Bohom myre, poэt odynakovo tsenyt Homera y Bodlera, antychnost' y dekadans. Otdel'naia siuzhetnaia lynyia knyhy - ystoryia sosushchestvovanyia Maksyma Rыl'skoho s sovetskym rezhymom, analyz eho tekstov s dvoynыm dnom, tekstov-shyfrov, kotorыe donosiat dlia nas trahycheskye kollyzyy эpokhy bol'shoho terrora. V samыe tiazhelыe vremena on ostavalsia vernыm svoey blahosklonnoy muze, relyhyy krasotы y harmonyy.