Tayemna troyanda

Do tsiyeyi zbirky maloyi prozy Vil′yama Batlera YEytsa (1865–1939), lidera irlands′koho literaturnoho vidrodzhennya, nobelivs′koho lavreata, uviyshly tvory, natchnenni irlands′kymy viruvannyamy ta skazannyamy, vchennyam rozenkreytseriv ta inshymy mistychnymy doktrynamy. Holovnoyu temoyu opovidey, chronolohiya yakych syahaye vid dochrystyyans′kych chasiv do suchasnoyi avtorovi doby, ye odvichna borot′ba mizh duchovnym i pryrodnym nachalamy. Heroyi knyzhky — poety y zakochani, chentsi ta vcheni muzhi, lytsari-ioannity i chleny Ordenu Alchimichnoyi Troyandy — samoposvyatno sluzhat′ nevlovnomu idealu, vtilenomu v mistychnomu όbrazi troyandy, mizh pelyustkamy yakoyi prohlyadaye to pozachasove vydyvo spirytual′noyi krasy, to bezkinechno dorohe oblychchya kochanoyi zhinky, to vichna dusha Irlandiyi…