TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gimpelevich,Zina J.
TI  - Vasil Bykaŭ: his life and works 
SN  - 9780773572928
AV  - PG2835.2.B9 Z66 2005eb
U1  - 891.7/9933 22
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Montreal [Que.]
PB  - McGill-Queen's University Press
KW  - Bykaŭ, Vasilʹ,
KW  - Authors, Belarusian
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Biography
KW  - Dissenters
KW  - Belarus
KW  - Écrivains biélorusses
KW  - 20e siècle
KW  - Biographies
KW  - Dissidents
KW  - Biélorussie
KW  - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM
KW  - Russian & Former Soviet Union
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
KW  - lcgft
KW  - rvmgf
N1  - Limited edition of 700 copies; Includes bibliographical references and index; Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Generation That Is Almost No More -- ONE: Childhood: Vasilok, the Blue Cornflower -- TWO: Youth, Ukraine, the War, and Post-War Military Service -- THREE: Lieutenant Bykau's Prose -- FOUR: Partisan Novels: Victims or Victors? -- FIVE: On Both Sides of the Front Lines: Signs of Misfortune -- SIX: Scars of War: Being Hunted Down -- SEVEN: On Oppression in War and Peace: Poor Folks -- EIGHT: There Is No Prophet in Your Fatherland: Vasil Bykau's Crossroads and the Politics of Freedom; Epilogue: Exile and a Long Way HomeInstead of Necrology -- Appendix: A Note on Belarusan Pronunciation and Transliterations -- Notes -- Bibliographies -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z
N2  - In the first English biography of his life and work, Zina Gimpelevich describes the conditions under which Bykau lived in the former USSR and provides a literary and political history of Belarus from 1918-2003. Based on interviews that she conducted with Bykau, she illuminates his life of as an artist and a defender of human rights. She also provides literary criticism of Bykau's work, including The Ordeal and Pack of Wolves, and discusses the psychological realism of his early novels, and his interest in existentialism
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