Василь Стефаник

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Василь Стефаник


Born
in Rusiv (Stanislaviv region), Ukraine
May 14, 1871

Died
December 07, 1936

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Prose writer and political activist. He was a member of the Austrian parliament from 1908 to 1918.
Stefanyk's whole literary output consisted of 59 published novellas, most of them no longer than a couple of pages. In them he showed himself a master of a species of the short story genre, the Stefanyk novella, which is characterized by a succinct and highly dramatic form used to capture single crucial moments in the life of a hero. The dramatic quality of the novellas ensured their being successfully staged as plays by Volodymyr Blavatsky and adapted for film (Kaminnyi khrest, screenplay by Ivan Drach). The heroes of Stefanyk's stories are for the most part peasants from his native Pokuttia. Against the general background of poverty or war (i
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Камінний хрест

3.72 avg rating — 862 ratings — published 1900 — 15 editions
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Синя книжечка

4.13 avg rating — 48 ratings — published 1899 — 4 editions
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Новели

4.09 avg rating — 46 ratings
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І чого ж ти серце моє...

4.23 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 1926 — 7 editions
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Новина

3.77 avg rating — 31 ratings
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Земля

4.40 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 1926
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Новели 1926-1933 років, авт...

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Моє слово. Поезії в прозі

4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1905 — 2 editions
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Василь Стефаник. Найкращі н...

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Повне зібрання творів в трь...

3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1954
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“Як уходили назад до хати, то ціла хата заридала. Як би хмара плачу, що нависла над селом, прірвалася, як би горе людське дунайську загату розірвало — такий був плач.”
Василь Стефаник, Камінний хрест. Новели

“Притулив лице до шибки, та й сльози по вікні спливали.
Стратився (1949)”
Василь Стефаник

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