Monologue of an atheist: Lviv, Kameniar, 1973, 430 p.

The material is a vast collection of Ivan Franko’s works directed against religion. Compiler and author of the introductory article – Arkadii Khalimonchuk. The collection includes scientific research, critical articles, journalistic, and literary works. The content mainly concerns philosophical criticism of religion, the phenomenon of God, religious institutions, and the social issues of religious life in Galicia.

Contents:

Fighter against Ecclesiastical Darkness
Section 1 Non Est Deus (There is no God. з лат.)

Hymn (Instead of a Prologue)

To Comrades from Prison

Letter to O. Roshkevych, September 20, 1878
Science
On Socialism
Christ and the Cross
The Sistine Madonna

Should We Return Back to the People?

What Does the «Galician Workers’ Community» Want?
Thoughts on Evolution in the History of Humanity

«The Tale of the Life of the Holy Great Martyr and Physician Panteleimon»

There Is No More the Terrible Ruler

A Few Words on How to Organize and Run Our People’s Publishing Houses
The Lumberjack
Ex nihilo. A Monologue of an Atheist
Letter to M. P. Drahomanov, February 14, 1886
Waves of Reaction
Essays on the History of Ukrainian Literature in Galicia
The Death of Cain

The Drunkard

I Fear Neither God nor Devil
The Soul Is Immortal! It Shall Live Eternally
Arot and Marot
Radicals and Religion
Mother Nature!
Beyond the Limits of the Possible
Saint Clement in Korsun
Social Action, the Social Question, and Socialism
Now Your Holy Will
The Fool Says in His Heart
The Last Judgment
How Is It There in Heaven
Honor to the Creator of Creatures!

Section 2 No Priestly Tortures
Patriotism
Letter to M. P. Drahomanov [before March 16], 1877
The Repentant Sinner

Patriotic Impulses
Young Rus
News from Galicia: Symptoms of Disintegration in Galician Society

Critical Letters on the Galician Intelligentsia
News from Galicia
What Kind of Intelligentsia Are the Galician Priests
Together with Him the Little Fathers Will Come
What the People Think about the Resigned Metropolitan Osyp Sembratovych
Priests and the Economic Condition of the Ukrainian People in Galicia
Review of Periodicals
A Parable about Prodigal Fathers
Ukrainian Parties in Galicia
Gottesfurcht und gute Sitte (Fear of God and Good Morals; from German)
Niech giną jak pędraki! (Let Them Perish Like Grubs!; from Polish)
Again on the “Hus” Affair
The Progress of the Inquisition
The People’s Assembly in Stanislaviv
To Keep Silent and to Respond!
Foundations of Society
Ukraina Irredenta
Radicals and Priests
The Robber and the Priest
Father the Humorist
Mystification or Idiocy
From Our Poetic Field
A Great Noise

Section 3 Against the Vatican, Catholicism, and the Union
The Botocudos
Catholic Pan-Slavism
Our View of the Polish Question
Resurrection or Burial?
A New Campaign of the «Black International» against Galician Rus
Contemporary Chronicle
Echoes of the Assembly
Mission
Plague
The Three-Bar Cross and Rome
Christ, Scourged with Whips
On the Matter of the Agreement
The Uniate Synod
Ruthenian Peasants about the Synod
Two Unions
Ivan Vyshenskyi: His Time and Literary Activity
Yosyp Shumlianskyi, Bishop of Lviv (1668–1708) and the Introduction of the Union in Galicia
New Contributions to the History of Polish Society in Ukraine in the 19th Century
Ultra montes (Beyond the Mountains; from Latin)
Two Final Cards
The Middle Ages
To the Pope, in an Album
Notes and Commentaries
Recommended Literature