Vasyl Stus: poems in English The chamber opera Stus: Passerby has 12 poems by the Ukrainian poet that form the basis of 10 musical compositions. English translator: Oleksandr Fraze-Frazenko Читати в оригіналі! Auf Deutsch lesen! Czytaj po polsku! Oleksandr Fraze-Frazenko Film director, clipmaker, music producer, writer. Lviv / New York 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.
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Vasyl Semenovych Stus ( Ukrainian: Васи́ль Семе́нович Стус; 6 January 1938, Rakhnivka, Ukrainian SSR - 4 September 1985, Perm-36, Kuchino, Russian SFSR) was a Ukrainian poet, translator, literary critic, journalist, and an active member of the Ukrainian dissident movement. Boccaccio, Defoe, and Camus may teach us a great deal about life in the shadow of plagues, but few authors provide a better example of surviving and finding meaning in isolation than Vasyl Stus. VASYL STUS (1938-1985) was a poet, translator, and literary critic, widely regarded as one of the foremost authors in the Ukrainian language. He is renowned for his acutely tragic philosophical poems, complex imagery, and frequent use of rare words and self-invented neologisms. Vasyl Stus, Selected Poems, translated and edited by Jaropolk Lassowsky, introduction by George Y. Shevelov (Munich: Ukrainian Free University, 1987). Born in Donbas, Vasyl Stus.
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by Vasyl Stus A stranger lives my life and wears my body— it starts to seem—he spends my years on earth instead of me. I have no eyes and ears, no mouth, no hands and feet. I am estranged inside my body, and—a lump of pain— I hover, shut-in-self, in total darkness. At birth, your psyche ended up stark naked: you failed to graft together. This book explores the poetry of Vasyl' Stus (1938-1985), a major Ukrainian writer and intellectual of the second half of the 20th century. The volume aims to present the evolution of Stus' poetic oeuvre from his beginnings in the late 1950s up to his mature poetry of the 1970s. 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? Vasyl Semenovych Stus was a Ukrainian poet, translator, literary critic, journalist, and an active member of the Ukrainian dissident movement. For his political convictions, his works were banned by the Soviet regime and he spent 13 years in detention until his death in Perm-36—then a Soviet forced labor camp for political prisoners, subsequently The Museum of the History of Political.
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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. Bohdan Tokarsky is a literary scholar specialising in Ukraine's twentieth-century and contemporary literature, with a research interest in the intersections between poetry, philosophy and psychology. He completed his doctoral work on the poetry of the Soviet dissident poet Vasyl Stus at the University of Cambridge where he also taught as.
Vasyl Semenovych Stus (Ukrainian : ´ ´ ; January 8, 1938 - September 4, 1985) was a Ukrainian poet and publicist, one of the most active members of Ukrainian dissident movement. For his political convictions, his works were banned by the Soviet regime and he spent 23 years (about a half of his life) in detention. Stus, Vasyl [Стус, Василь], b 8 January 1938 in Rakhnivka, Haisyn raion,. and Zolotokosa krasunia (The Golden-Braided Beauty), containing Stus's poetry found in the KGB archives. A 4-volume (in 9 books) edition of Stus's works was published in Lviv in 1994. A project of publishing a 12-volume edition of Stus's collected works.
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10/01/2018 2 minute read 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 evidence, the KGB accused him of anti-Soviet sentiment and propaganda. Vasyl Stus. A Hundred Years Since Sich Went Down. Translated by Alex Foreman May 4, 2022 A hundred years since Sich* went down. Siberia. Cells in Solovkí**. And dead of night wraps right around A hellhole land and hellish scream. A hundred years of tortured dreams, Of expectations, faith and blood Of sons all branded for their love,
