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«Intermezzo» — an impressionism style novella by a Ukrainian writer Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky, written in 1908 in Chernihiv. The novella consists of 11 parts, that are connected to the image of the writer, ⁣who is both a character and the narrator in the story. It tells about his mental healing caused by interacting with nature. The novella touches upon topics of mental balance, living a fulfilling life, intricacies of artistic process.

Title
Word Intermezzo (from it. — pause) — a short music piece, that played in breaks between acts of tragedies or opera. For the lyric character of Kotsiubynsky's novella, this musical break is the mental recovery people can get by interacting with nature.

Dedication: «Dedicated to the fields of the Kononiwka village»

Writing history
Novella «Intermezzo» was written after the events of Russian Revolution of 1905 in age of the biggest impact of reaction. The novella is autobigraphic. In the summer of 1908 Kotsiubynski went to the Kononiwka village, that was a part of Poltava Governorate in early XX century, to rest. Nowadays, it's in a northern part of Drabiv Raion in Cherkasy Oblast. Novella is dedicated to the fields near that village.Fields were owned by Yevhen Chykalenko, famous Ukrainian art patronage. It was him who convinced Kotsuibynsky to rest at his mansion.


 * Theme: artist and society.
 * Type of literature: epic.
 * Genre: psychological novella written in prose that had characteristics specific to poetry
 * Main idea: importance of artists in society; a person can only be happy if they're in harmony with nature and themselves; moral image of the artist
 * Writing style: monologue.

Links

 * Калениченко Н., Кузнецов Ю. Коцюбинський Михайло Михайлович // Українська Літературна Енциклопедія: в 5 т. — К. : «Українська енциклопедія» ім. М. П. Бажана. — 1995. — Т. 3. — С. 32—34.
 * Кузнецов Ю., Левчик Н. «Напоєний соками багатющої землі своєї…» // Коцюбинський М. Вибрані твори: Оповідання, новели, повісті. — К. : Генеза, 2004. — С. 5—20.
 * Ковальчук О. "Intermezzo" (Імпресіонізм+експресіонізм+сюрреалізм)//Дивослово. - 2015. - №09(702). - с.51-56
 * Intermezzo Коцюбинський М.  Intermezzo / М. Коцюбинський ; передм. Я. Хоменка. — Вид. 2-ге. — Харків : Держ. вид-во України, 1930. — 48 с.