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Vasil Bykaŭ

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Vasil Bykaŭ


Born
in Byčki village, Ušačy district, Belarus
June 19, 1924

Died
June 22, 2003

Genre
War


Vasiĺ Bykaŭ was born in the village Byčki, not far from Viciebsk in 1924. In 1941 he was in Ukraine when Germany attacked the USSR. At first seventeen-year-old Bykaŭ dug trenches – then he volunteered for the Red Army. For years after the war he continued to serve, returning to the USSR only in the mid-1950s. There he started to work as a journalist for the Hrodna Pravda newspaper. In that same decade his first novellas began to come out, of which the most famous are "Sotnikaŭ", "The Obelisk", "To Go and Not Return", and "To Live Till Sunrise". During and after the Perestroika, he participated in pro-reform movement (e.g. Popular Front of Belarus). In October 1993, he signed the Letter of Forty-Two.

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Альпийская баллада

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Знак бяды

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The Dead Feel No Pain

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Жураўліны крык

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Обелиск

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Дожить до рассвета

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4.35 avg rating — 98 ratings — published 1973 — 9 editions
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Доўгая дарога дадому

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В тумане

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Пойти и не вернуться

3.95 avg rating — 43 ratings — published 1979 — 9 editions
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“Зло не можа спарадзіць нічога, апроч зла, на іншае яно не здольна. Але бяда ў тым, што людская дабрыня перад злом бяссільна, зло лічыцца толькі з сілай і баіцца адно толькі кары. Толькі непазбежнасць адплаты можа прыцішыць драпежны ягоны нораў, прымусіць задумацца.”
Vasil Bykaŭ, Знак бяды

“Гэта страшная, часам невытлумачальная з’ява – фашызм. Але мне здаецца, я блізка да таго, каб яе зразумець. Вядома, зразумець – неабавязкова апраўдаць. Мне здаецца, гэты сфінкс разгадваецца проста: шалёная актыўнасць адных пры мяшчанскай пакорлівасці другіх. 3 аднаго боку, мараль: мэта – усё, сродкі – нішто. 3 другога: мая хата – з краю. Палітыка – не наша справа. За ўсіх думае фюрэр. Мы – маленькія людзі. I ў дадатак – самая раз’юшаная прапаганда, здольная чорнае выдаць за белае.”
Vasil Bykaŭ, Мертвым не баліць. Без цэнзуры

“...Лютая была вайна. Смяртэльная бітва з найвялікшаю няпраўдай і несправядлівасцю, якія калі-небудзь нараджала зямля. Гэтая барацьба ўзяла ў чалавецтва безліч ахвяр і іхняй крывёю напісала ўрокі, якія немагчыма забыць. Найпершы з іх, мусіць, заключаецца ў тым, што воля і мір – занадта кволыя дрэўцы, каб іх можна было вырасціць без усеагульнага клопату ўсёй трохмільярднай сям’і. Занядбанне гэтым урокам каштавала б зямной катастрофы.”
Vasil Bykaŭ, Мертвым не баліць. Без цэнзуры

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