"Borislav Is Laughing" is novel by the Ukrainian author Ivan Franko. Together with "Boa-Constrictor" and a number of short stories, it describes the development of the oil industry in the Borislav region - the rise and growth of both the oil barons and the oil workers. Franko made a close study of his subject. This was thee first time the workers' theme was dealt with in Ukrainian literature - and one of the first in world literature. Of "Borislav Is Laughing" Ivan Franko wrote: "This was an attempt to show the native labour movement of the Borislav oil workers, which ended with the great Borislav fire in the autumn of 1873."
"Borislav Is Laughing" is novel by the Ukrainian author Ivan Franko. Together with "Boa-Constrictor" and a number of short stories, it describes the development of the oil industry in the Borislav region - the rise and growth of both the oil barons and the oil workers. Franko made a close study of his subject. This was thee first time the workers' theme was dealt with in Ukrainian literature - and one of the first in world literature. Of "Borislav Is Laughing" Ivan Franko wrote: "This was an attempt to show the native labour movement of the Borislav oil workers, which ended with the great Borislav fire in the autumn of 1873."
