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Record Nr.

UNINA9910954372103321

Autore

Stus Dmytro

Titolo

Vasyl Stus: Life in Creativity / / Dmytro Stus, Andreas Umland, Ludmila Bachurina

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hannover, : ibidem, 2021

ISBN

3-8382-7631-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (389 pages)

Collana

Ukrainian Voices ; 23

Disciplina

891.7912

Soggetti

Biographie

Dichter

Dissidenten

Ukraine

Vasyl Stus

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- 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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.