Literature & Literary Studies
Selected Poetry
by Vasyl Stus
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Vasyl Stus was not only a poet of rare talent, publicist, translator and literary critic, but he is also a personification of "the voice of conscience in the world of shaky and blurred concepts of honour, truth, decency." He spent nearly half of his life in Soviet detention centres, solitary confinement cells, Mordovian and Kolyma camps and toiling at mines. The Soviet penal system deprived him of family visits, seized his poems, letters and manuscripts, physically abused him and tried to destroy him morally but it never managed to break his spirit.
The poems in this collection are the best examples of Vasyl Stus's lyrics. In these lines, civic motives and the artist's pain for the fate of Ukraine are intertwined with a delicate lace of love lyrics and philosophical reflections on life and the purpose of man. Poems are full of hope and unyielding resolve.
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Author Biography
Vasyl Stus was one of the most significant Ukrainian poets, translator, publicist, novelist, literary critic, human rights defender, Soviet political prisoner, dissident, and member of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group who fought for the independence of Ukraine. He was one of the key figures of the Ukrainian dissident movement. Laureate of the State Prize named after T. Shevchenko (1991, posthumous), Hero of Ukraine (2005, posthumous).
Although very few of his literary works dealt with political issues, he was repressed for his support of the Ukrainian dissident movement and for his criticism of the Soviet Union’s colonial Russianization policies that sought to eliminate the national identity of Ukrainians.
Stus spent many years of his life in detention. Many of his manuscripts were confiscated, destroyed and lost to posterity.
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Bibliographic Information
- Publisher Book Club "Family Leisure Club"
- Publication Date October 2018
- Orginal LanguageUkrainian
- ISBN/Identifier 9786171259607
- Publication Country or regionUkraine
- Pages319
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusPublished
- Original Language TitleВибране
- Original Language AuthorsСтус Василь
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