Vasyl Stus: Life in Creativity

Rezension

"This is the first detailed biography of a genial poet whose word expressed the pains, tragedies, and lost hopes of the Soviet Ukrainian so-called 'Sixtiers' in the 20th century. To those who do not know or know only little of Vasyl Stus' oeuvre, the book will reveal a great European poet who, together with Rilke, Whitman, Celan and Pasternak, represents mankind's finest twentieth-century poetry. To those who already know his legacy, the book will reveal the context of Stus' poems and help to better understand his texts."Leonid Finberg, Editor-in-Chief, Dukh i Litera Press, Kyiv-Mohyla Academy