The Wall deals with the fate of Belarus, from Stalinist repressions (novella Yellow Sand) and World War II battles that left Belarus in ruins to the dismal life of the Belarusian people in 1990s. The author's disillusionment and pessimistic attitude is obvious throughout. Similarly to many other works by Bykaw, parallels to existentialism can be drawn, e.g., the focus on choice and moral scruples. It depicts the absence of liberty and the powerlessness of an individual within a totalitarian system.
As Vasil Bykaŭ was declared a persona non grata during Alexander Lukashenko's regime, the stories were published in Russian literary magazines 'Druzhba Narodov' (nr 7,8,11, 1999) and 'Zvezda' (nr 5, 1999), the first book format being the translation (of most of the stories) into Estonian, entitled Valgevene tragöödia ('The Tragedy of Belarus'), in 2001.
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wall, bykaŭ, short, story, collection, wall, Сцяна, collection, short, stories, belarusian, writer, vasil, bykaŭ, wallauthorvasil, bykaŭoriginal, titleСьцянаcountrybelaruslanguagebelarusiangenreshort, storiespublishernasha, nivapublication, date1997pages384, p. The Wall Scyana is a collection of short stories by the Belarusian writer Vasil Bykaŭ The WallAuthorVasil BykaŭOriginal titleScyanaCountryBelarusLanguageBelarusianGenreshort storiesPublisherNasha NivaPublication date1997Pages384 ppPreceded byThe Pink Mist Followed byPitfall Description and background editThe Wall deals with the fate of Belarus from Stalinist repressions novella Yellow Sand and World War II battles that left Belarus in ruins to the dismal life of the Belarusian people in 1990s The author s disillusionment and pessimistic attitude is obvious throughout Similarly to many other works by Bykaw parallels to existentialism can be drawn e g the focus on choice and moral scruples It depicts the absence of liberty and the powerlessness of an individual within a totalitarian system As Vasil Bykaŭ was declared a persona non grata during Alexander Lukashenko s regime the stories were published in Russian literary magazines Druzhba Narodov nr 7 8 11 1999 and Zvezda nr 5 1999 the first book format being the translation of most of the stories into Estonian entitled Valgevene tragoodia The Tragedy of Belarus in 2001 External links edithttps web archive org web 20070930231743 http magazines russ ru znamia authors b bykov Some stories by Bykaw in Russian nbsp This Belarus related article is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte nbsp This article about a collection of short stories published in the 1990s is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title The Wall Bykaŭ short story collection amp oldid 1020076882, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
