Valerian Pidmohylny wanted to write a novel in which the ship's master would be a woman. And he wrote "A Little Drama" - a novel about new relationships, a new way of life, new morality, and eternal questions that arise in the unexpected surprises of the age of technological progress.
Crazy irrational passion or cold rational calculation - who will emerge victorious from the duel? Is victory even possible if both love and suffering are just standard protein reactions? Pidmohylny masterfully plays out a small drama on the chamber stage, the name of which is life. This is one of the best philosophical novels in Ukrainian literature of the 20th century.
