The book ‘On the Island’ is a collection of modernist prose by Mykhailo Mykhailovych Kotsiubynsky. The famous author of Ukrainian classical literature had a gift: he saw the most secret corners of the human soul. The writer could delve into the consciousness of an individual, revealing their true motives, fears, and emotions. This is what helped him create unique, rather contradictory characters - peculiar ‘islanders’, whose shores are bypassed by the currents of muffled feelings. Having withdrawn from the outside world, they listen to the tremors of their own nature in order to comprehend the fullness of inner peace.