Publication “Frontline identity: Odessa in the twentieth century”

"Everyone knows that Odessa is a unique city. And so to measure it by the yardstick of other cities – not good. To write like other cities, also. It is necessary to look for special approaches and special words" – so Yaroslav Polishchuk begins his recently published book “Frontline identity: Odessa twentieth century.” Page describing the cultural history of Odessa of the twentieth century, the author analyses will frontino identity that has developed in our city. In the first part of the paper analyzes the General process, defined the cultural face of the city in the second are the portraits of distinguished artists, Vladimir Jabotinsky, Pyotr Leshchenko, Mikhail Zhuk, Boris Necherda, Boris Kherson. Each in its own way embodies the image of the seaside town in its variable identity and unfailing charm. And if these half-forgotten figure today, we have a good opportunity to know and to appreciate the deeper, however, and reinterpreting the phenomenon of Odessa of the twentieth century. The publishing house dukh I Litera.