persons Stus, Vasyl´

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Name Stus, Vasyl´
Alternative Names
ID 8961
Gender male
Lifespan 1938-01-06 - 1985-09-04
Professions poet (Q49757)
Collection(s)
  • Religion in the Secular Age
  • Uri(s) https://ica.acdh-dev.oeaw.ac.at/entity/8961/
    Notes Today Stus is seen as a pioneer in the fight for freedom of Ukraine. Through religious references in his work he sought to illustrate and emphasise the dramatic repression he and his people had to endure as well as encourage hopefulness. He wrote five collections and more than 1000 poems in which destiny, the preservation of the soul and the acceptance of suffering played central roles, as well as the idea of the poet as prophet and religious leader who suffers for his people only to find salvation eventually. Much of his work was only published posthumously as his political activism and dissidant status led to him being sent to a detention camp in 1972 and a prison camp in 1979 where he eventually died of a hunger strike.
    References Woldan, Alois. "Religious aspects in Ukrainian poetry – the case of Vasyl´ Stus." Religion in the Secular Age. Vienna: Verlag der ÖAW.

    Relations

    Institution

    Start End Other relation type Related Institution
    1967 was expelled from National Academy of Sciences (Kyiv)
    2016-06 had named after him/herself Donetsk National University
    studied law at Donetsk National University
    attended as a doctoral student National Academy of Sciences (Kyiv)

    Place

    Start End Other relation type Related Place
    related >> born in Rakhnivka, Ukrainian SSR
    related >> died in Kuchino, Perm Krai, Russia

    Work

    Start End Other relation type Related Work
    related >> wrote >> author of Tvory: u chotyr´och tomach, shesty knyhach
    related >> wrote >> author of Tam, za bezkraiem, tam, za horoju

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