Vasil Bykaŭ his life and works /
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Imprint: | Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2005. |
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| Online Access: | Available in ProQuest Ebook Central - Academic Complete. |
| Summary: | The Soviet Union banned many of Vasil Bykau's novels, which often focus on the agonizing moral dilemmas faced by young officers during the horrors of war. Considered the best modern Belarusan writer and the last Eastern European literary dissident, Bykau (1924-2003) is referred to as the "conscience of a nation" for leading an intellectual crusade against Lukasenka's totalitarian regime. In exile from Belarus for several years, he was given refuge by Vaclav Havel in Czechoslovakia. He has been nominated for the Nobel Prize by Havel, Czeslaw Milosz, and PEN. |
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| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-249) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780773572928 (online) 9781282863569 (online) |
| Author Notes: | Zina J. Gimpelevich is professor emeritus of Slavic studies at the University of Waterloo and the author of Vasil Bykaŭ: His Life and Works.Zina J. Gimpelevich is associate professor, Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies, University of Waterloo. |