{"product_id":"vasyl-stus-life-in-creativity-9783838216317","title":"Vasyl Stus: Life in Creativity","description":"\u003cp\u003e  • Publisher: Ibidem Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Ibidem Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Political\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNobody knows how to explain the mystery of fame. Many once well-known people who spent much of their lives at the core of historic events have fallen into oblivion since. 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? The irreconcilability of his position as a human being? Or\/and Vasyl Stus' ability to feel the pain of others as his own? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTrying to answer these and other questions, the poet's son and literary scholar Dmytro Stus masterfully combines a cultural and biographical study with private recollections and observations of his father. The book offers a sometimes-paradoxical merger of genres mixing academic analysis with novelistic narration. It shows Vasyl Stus through the eyes of his son and researcher against the background of twentieth-century Ukrainian \"belated\" emergence as a nation-state. The Ukrainian edition of this book won Ukraine's prestigious Shevchenko National Prize.","brand":"Ibidem Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45088181518487,"sku":"9783838216317","price":3055.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9783838216317.webp?v=1767641406","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/vasyl-stus-life-in-creativity-9783838216317","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}