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Кар'ер
Раман “Кар’ер” – адносіцца да “новага” Быкава, не ян як і раней піша пра вайну толькі ўжо больш адкрыта дазваляе сабе асуджаць жахлівыя жарнавы таталітарызму ў якіх перамолваюцца лёсы тысячаў людзей. У рамане «Кар'ер» вайна паказваецца з пункту гледжання былога камандзіра Чырвонай Арміі Паўла Агеева. Герой рамана едзе ў тыя мясціны, дзе калісьці яго расстрэльвалі, а ён застаўся жывым у яме сярод мёртвых. Камандзір хоча знайсці адказ на пытанне: Марыя, яго каханая, была тады расстраляна разам з баявымі таварышамі ці смерць усё ж абмінула яе? Метр за метрам перакопваючы кар'ер смерці таварышаў па падполлі, Агееў вяртаецца ў маладосць, у жахлівы 1941 год, у кар'ер сваёй памяці. Пераасэнсаванне мінулага стала галоўным напрамкам, па якім рухалася і паглыблялася быкаўская думка ў 80-я г. не губляла сэнс папярэдняя творчасьць але ўзбагачалася і дадавалася іншымі аспэктамі гуманістычнае бачаньне вайны і разуменьне трагічнага лёсу беларускага народу.
301 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1986
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About the author
Vasil Bykaŭ
82 books47 followersVasiĺ 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.
Bykaŭ's literary achievement lies in his sternly realistic, albeit touched by lyricism, depictions of World War II battles, typically with a small number of personages. In the ferociousness of encounter they face moral dilemmas both vis-a-vis their enemies and within their own Soviet world burdened by ideological and political constraints. Bykaŭ's novellas that are available in English translation, such as "The Dead Feel No Pain" (1965), "The Ordeal" (1970), "Wolf Pack" (1975) and "Sign of Misfortune", challenged the official version of the war. This brought upon the writer vicious accusations of "false humanism" from some Red Army generals and the Communist Party press. "Vasil Bykov is a very courageous and uncompromising writer, rather of the Solzhenitsyn stamp," wrote Michael Glenny in Partisan Review in 1972. Bykaŭ was one of the most admired writers in the Soviet Union. In 1980 he was awarded the honorific title of People's Writer of the Belarusian SSR.
Outside of his native country, Vasiĺ Bykaŭ is the most widely read Belarusian writer. During the Soviet period, his works were translated into most major languages of the world. However, most of the translations were done on the basis of Russian rendering. Bykaŭ wrote all of his works in his native Belarusian language, and translated several of them into Russian by himself. Vasiĺ Bykaŭ's stature in the life of his country remains enormous. An opponent of Alexander Lukashenko's regime and a supporter of the Belarusian People's Front, he lived abroad for several years (first in Finland, then in Germany and the Czech Republic), but returned to his homeland just a month before his death. The memory of his turbulent life and uncompromising stance on the war have only enhanced his reputation at home and abroad ever since.
Belarusian: Васіль Быкаў
Russian: Василь Быков
Bykaŭ's literary achievement lies in his sternly realistic, albeit touched by lyricism, depictions of World War II battles, typically with a small number of personages. In the ferociousness of encounter they face moral dilemmas both vis-a-vis their enemies and within their own Soviet world burdened by ideological and political constraints. Bykaŭ's novellas that are available in English translation, such as "The Dead Feel No Pain" (1965), "The Ordeal" (1970), "Wolf Pack" (1975) and "Sign of Misfortune", challenged the official version of the war. This brought upon the writer vicious accusations of "false humanism" from some Red Army generals and the Communist Party press. "Vasil Bykov is a very courageous and uncompromising writer, rather of the Solzhenitsyn stamp," wrote Michael Glenny in Partisan Review in 1972. Bykaŭ was one of the most admired writers in the Soviet Union. In 1980 he was awarded the honorific title of People's Writer of the Belarusian SSR.
Outside of his native country, Vasiĺ Bykaŭ is the most widely read Belarusian writer. During the Soviet period, his works were translated into most major languages of the world. However, most of the translations were done on the basis of Russian rendering. Bykaŭ wrote all of his works in his native Belarusian language, and translated several of them into Russian by himself. Vasiĺ Bykaŭ's stature in the life of his country remains enormous. An opponent of Alexander Lukashenko's regime and a supporter of the Belarusian People's Front, he lived abroad for several years (first in Finland, then in Germany and the Czech Republic), but returned to his homeland just a month before his death. The memory of his turbulent life and uncompromising stance on the war have only enhanced his reputation at home and abroad ever since.
Belarusian: Васіль Быкаў
Russian: Василь Быков
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August 17, 2017
En bok om en man som blir skenavrättad i ett grustag i Belarus under den tyska ockupationen. Han återvänder 40 år senare för att göra en arkeologisk utgrävning. En drabbande och realistisk skildring av partisankriget men också en djupt poetisk bok om människans villkor, plikter och uppoffringar.
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