Vasyl Stus : Life in Creativity Paperback / softback
by DMYTRO STUS
Edited by Tetiana Shcherbachenko
Part of the Ukrainian Voices series
Paperback / softback
Description
How to explain the mystery of fame? Many once well-known people who spent much of their lives at the core of historic events have fallen into oblivion since.
The brilliant East Ukrainian poet and Soviet-era dissident Vasyl Stus (1938-85) became renowned only after his reburial in late Soviet Ukraine in 1989.
What are the reasons for the widespread admiration for him in post-Soviet Ukrainian society?
The exceptional beauty of his poetry? His stunning courage and selflessness as a Soviet dissident?
The irreconcilability of his position as a human being? Or/and Vasyl Stus' ability to feel the pain of others as his own?
Trying to answer these and other questions, the poet's son and literary scholar Dmytro Stus masterfully combines a cultural and biographical study with private recollections and observations of his father.
The book offers a sometimes-paradoxical merger of genres mixing academic analysis with novelistic narration.
It shows Vasyl Stus through the eyes of his son and researcher against the background of twentieth-century Ukrainian "belated" emergence as a nation-state.
In 2007, the Ukrainian edition of this book won Ukraine's prestigious Shevchenko National Prize.
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:388 pages
- Publisher:ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Scho
- Publication Date:22/11/2021
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- ISBN:9783838216317
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:388 pages
- Publisher:ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Scho
- Publication Date:22/11/2021
- Category:
- ISBN:9783838216317
