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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gimpelevich, Zina J., 1949-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bykau, Vasil, 1924-2003.

Bykau, Vasil.

Authors, Belarusian--20th century--Biography.

Authors, Belarusian.

Dissenters--Belarus--Biography.

Dissenters.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 260 pages, 18 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, portraits

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2005.

Language Note:

English

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.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction The Generation That Is Almost No More

Childhood

Youth, Ukraine, the War, and Post-War Military Service

Lieutenant Bykaŭ's Prose

Partisan Novels

On Both Sides of the Front Lines

Scars of War

On Oppression in War and Peace

There Is No Prophet in Your Fatherland

Epilogue: Exile and a Long Way Home

Instead of Necrology

A Note on Belarusan Pronunciation and Transliterations

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Limited edition of 700 copies.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-249) and index.

ISBN:

1-282-86356-8

9786612863561

0-7735-7292-9

OCLC:

191819011