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THE CASE OF VASYL STUS Marko Pavlyshyn, Monash University In his introduction to Vasyl Stus's verse collection Palimpsesty [Palimpsests, 1986] George Shevelov posed a question that has perplexed Stus criticism ever since: "How can one wrench oneself free of the heroic biography of the artist and speak of the poetry as a fact of literature?" (18).1
Jan 10, 2018 · 10/01/2018. 2 minute read. How Ukraine’s Vasyl Stus used poems to fight the Soviet Regime. Some 80 years ago, one of Ukraine’s most famous poets was born. Vasyl Stus spent most of his life in detention for his political convictions, until his death in Perm-36; a Soviet forced labor camp. Using 14 of his poems and literary articles as ...
Jan 1, 2019 · Selected poetry | Vasyl Stus / Вірші, проза та листи Василя Стуса (1938-1985) Ukrainian Edition | by Vasyl Stus | Jan 1, 2016. Hardcover.
Vasyl Stus’s contribution to the development of twentieth-century Ukrainian literature, the restoration of Ukrainian sovereignty, and the national idea cannot be overestimated. Adolescence, academics, and the first poetry publications. Vasyl Stus was the youngest of four children born in the village of Rakhnivka, Vinnytsia oblast, in 1938.
Vasyl Stus. ; Vasyl Stus (1938–1985) was one of the most significant Ukrainian poets of the second half of the twentieth century. A poet, translator, literary critic, and journalist, he was prosecuted by the Soviet government for his views on art and politics and died in a Siberian prison. His works have gained fame and popularity since the ...
distinguishes Stus’s works from other Soviet-era prison writing, such as Varlam Shalamov’s Gulag poetry or Osip Mandel´shtam’s Voronezhskie tetradi (Voronezh Notebooks, 1935–37), is an intimate marriage of poetry 3 Vasyl’ Stus, Tvory: u chotyr’okh tomakh (shesty knyhakh). Z dodatkovymy 5 i 6 (u
In this talk, Dr. Bohdan Tokarskyi will focus on the poetics of self-making in the works of Vasyl Stus (1938-1985), a Soviet dissident and Gulag prisoner who is widely considered to be Ukraine’s greatest post-war poet. On the one hand, Dr. Tokarskyi’s talk will elucidate Stus’ dialogue with the tradition of literary modernism.
