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Caмостійнa робота № 22

Тема: Василь Стус

Основні питання, що розглядаються:

1. Біографія сучасного українського поета Василя Стуса.

2. Літературна робота поета.

Література:

1. Цветкова И.B., Клепальченко И.А., Мыльцева Н.А. Английский язык для школьников и поступающих в вузы. – Издательство “ГЛОССА”, 1996 – 224с.

2. Скалкин B.Л. Учитесь говорить по-английски - M., -«Просвещение», 1972. – 304с.

Студент повинен знати:

1. Біографічні відомості про Василя Стуса.

2. Відомості про літературну творчість поета.

3. Лeксичний мінімум.

Студент повинен вміти: рoзпoвiсти про біографію та літературну діяльність Василя Стуса.

A MODERN UKRAINIAN POET: VASYL' STUS

Vasyl' Stus is a Ukrainian poet.

He was born on January 8, 1938, in the village of Rakhnivka, Ukraine.

He died on September 4, 1985, in the camp for political prisoners in Russia.

BIOGRAPHY

Though bornin the vicinity of the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv, Stus spent his childhood and youth in the Donbas Re­gion, an extremely russified area of Ukraine. After gradua­ting from a Teachers' Training College he worked as a teicher of Ukrainian language and literature. In 1963 he moved to Kyiv to become a graduate student in literary theory at the Institute of Literature under the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR. In 1965, during the period ofpolitical thawin the USSR, Stus publicly protested against the repressions of the Ukrainian intelligentsia, for which he wasexpelledfrom his graduate program. In 1972 he was arrested, charged with anti-Soviet propaganda andsentenced to five years in the camps and three years ofexile. He returned back to Kyiv in 1979 only to be arrested again eight months later. This time he was sentenced to ten years ofimprisonment and five years of exile. Stus died in a punishment cell at a camp for political prisoners in the Urals. He was 47 years old.

LITERARY WORK

As a poet, Stus started publishing in 1963—1965. His first collections of poetry «The Circuit» (Kruhovert'), «Winter Trees» (Zymovi dereva), and «The Merry Cemetery» (Veselyj tsvyntar) were written before hisincarceration.However, it is his prison poetry, namely the collections «А Candle in a Mirror» (Svicha v svichadi) and particu­larly «Palimpsests» (Palimpsesty) that areconsidered the height of his creativeheritage. Filled with existential anguish, Stus' prison poetry explores the themes of life and death, fate anddestiny, individual choice and respon­sibility. It is the treatment of these themes that places his works in the context of those written by the most distinguished incarcerated intellectuals, such as Paul Verlaine, Taras Shevchenko, Oscar Wild, Jean Genet, Ale­xander Solzhenitsyn. Stus also takes theundeniable lea­ding place on the modern Ukrainian literary horizon.