Blyndaruk Svitlana

The figure of Vasyl Stus in literary studies

Abstract: Purpose of the article. On the basis of the research of the poetic work to analyze the life and creative heritage of the talented Ukrainian poet, prose writer, translator, literary critic, publicist, philosopher and human rights defender, Hero of Ukraine Vasyl Semenovych Stus (1938-1985). Methodology. Bibliographical and other general scientific methods are applied: historical and systematic approach to the topic, analysis of literary and critical, journalistic sources and synthesis of information. The specified method sprovide an opportunity to thoroughly investigate pedagogical and socio-political activities, to restore the memory of the Ukrainian literary traditions of the descendants, the name of Vasyl Semenovych Stus - a poet of the 20th century, a patriot of Ukraine. Scientific novelty. Based on the collected materials, the article outlines a circle of bibliographic documents that include information about the life path of Vasyl Stus, as well as provides an assessment of his work in the memoirs and critical articles of friends, like-minded people, representatives of the Ukrainian cultural movementof the 1960s. The history of the publication of biographical and bibliographic works about V. S. Stus is analyzed in detail, their content and informational content are considered. The significant contribution of V. Stus to the development of Ukrainian scientific and auxiliary bibliography is reflected, a complex of scientific and bibliographical sources, which are part of the funds of the V. I. Vernadskyi National Library of Ukraine, srepresented. Conclusions. Today, it is important to comprehensively research and preserve the valuable heritage of the outstanding poet-thinker of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, whose creative legacy does not lose its relevance, but gives a new impetus to the scientific research of researchers, teachers, students, graduate students. Analysis and research of sources containing biographical and bibliographic, as wellas journalistic materials about the literary critic and publications about his life and creative activity, give reasons to talk about the need to prepare a new personal bibliographic index.

Keywords: Vasyl Stus, writer, poet, literary critic, personal bibliography, biographical and bibliographical sources, sixties, memories, totalitarian regime.

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• Blyndaruk Svitlana (V. I. Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine, Ukraine, Kyiv, blyndaruksvetlana@gmail.com) ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0714-0279

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Blyndaruk Svitlana (2023). The figure of Vasyl Stus in literary studies. Academic Papers of The Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine, (68) 23-42. (In Ukrainan). doi: https://doi.org/10.15407/np.68.023

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