Este autor ucraniano explora las profundidades de la experiencia humana a través de la poesía y la prosa. Sus obras a menudo profundizan en temas de identidad y desplazamiento, reflejando su propio viaje desde vivir en Donetsk hasta reubicarse en Kyiv. La capacidad del autor para retratar emociones y pensamientos complejos le otorga una voz única en la literatura contemporánea. Su estilo se caracteriza por una introspección perspicaz y una observación sensible del mundo.
Mondegreen tells the story of a refugee from Ukraine's Donbas region who has escaped to Kyiv at the onset of the Ukrainian-Russian war. Written in beautiful, experimental style, the novel shows how people-and cities-are capable of radical transformation and how this, in turn, affects their interpersonal relations and cultural identification.
In The Length of Days, featuring a wild cast of characters, Rafeyenko combines poetry and wicked humor with elements of magical realism. The novel is set in 2014, mostly in the composite Donbas city of Z—an uncanny foretelling of what this letter has come to symbolize since February 2022, when Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine.