"On the Humble Field" by Valery Shevchuk is a novel-parable, which is a kind of travesty of the well-known literary monument of the times of Kyivan Rus' "The Pechersky Paterik"***. The leitmotif of the work is a condemnation of the seclusion of monastic life, which, according to the author, leads to the enslavement of a person due to the limitation of his physical and spiritual needs. The most famous works of the author are "The House on the Mountain", "Three Leaves Outside the Window", "Shadows are Disappeared", "Embankment 12", "Middle Cross", "Evening of Holy Autumn", "Cry of the Rooster at Dawn", "Valley of Springs", " Warm autumn", "Two on the shore", etc. Valery Shevchuk is a Ukrainian writer in his sixties, a master of historical, psychological and whimsical prose.