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Title: |
Vasyl Stus: Life in Creativity |
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| By (author): |
Dmytro Stus Series edited by: Andreas Umland Translated by: Ludmila Bachurina |
| ISBN10-13: |
3838216318 : 9783838216317 |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Size: |
210x150mm |
| Pages: |
352 |
| Weight: |
.480 Kg. |
| Published: |
ibidem - November 2021 |
| List Price: |
27.00 Pounds Sterling |
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Temporarily Out of Stock, more expected soon
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| Subjects: |
Biography: historical, political & military |
| 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 Stusâ ability to feel the pain of others as his own? Trying to answer these and other questions, the poetâ 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 â belatedâ emergence as a nation-state. In 2007, the Ukrainian edition of this book won Ukraineâ s prestigious Shevchenko National Prize. |
| Table of Contents: |
| Preliminary Remarks; Life after Death: Reburial and Struggle for Heritage (Year 1989); Vasyl Stus' Ancestry and Childhood; The Poet's Youth; Meetings and Leave-Takings (1961-1963); The Bastion of Your Own Self (1963-1965); "And All That Is Like the Gifts of the Lord" (1966-1972); "Creativity Time / Dichterzeit"; Epilogue: A Chronicle of Resistance. |
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“This is the first detailed biography of a genial poet whose word expressed the pains, tragedies, and lost hopes of the Soviet Ukrainian so-called ‘Sixtiers’ in the 20th century. To those who do not know or know only little of Vasyl Stus’ oeuvre, the book will reveal a great European poet who, together with Rilke, Whitman, Celan and Pasternak, represents mankind’s finest twentieth-century poetry. To those who already know his legacy, the book will reveal the context of Stus’ poems and help to better understand his texts.”Leonid Finberg, Editor-in-Chief, Dukh i Litera Press, Kyiv-Mohyla Academy
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“The book is the most fundamental work on Vasyl Stus.
It gives an opportunity to feel Vasyl Stus as a character of a lifelong novel. And this hero, who loved, suffered, thought, like all other ordinary people, is much more convincing than the Icon, the Symbol, the Brand, than all those static labels that can turn a dynamic human life into a bronze plaque. This study is a big step towards understanding Vasyl Stus as a person and a poet.” Krytyka book review
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