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Vasil Bykaŭ : his life and works / Zina J. Gimpelevich.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Montreal [Que.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2005.Description: 1 online resource (xi, 260 pages, 18 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, portraitsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780773572928
  • 0773572929
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Vasil Bykau : His life and works.DDC classification:
  • 891.7/9933 22
LOC classification:
  • PG2835.2.B9 Z66 2005eb
Online resources:
Contents:
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
Summary: 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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Limited edition of 700 copies.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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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

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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