The Wall (short stories)

The Wall (short stories)

"The Wall" ("Сьцяна") is a collection of short stories by the Belarusian writer Vasil Bykaŭ.

Description and background

"The Wall" deals with the tragic 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 Bykav, 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 a persona non grata during Alexander Lukashenko's regime, the stories were first published in Russian literary magazines 'Druzba 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.

External links

*http://magazines.russ.ru/znamia/authors/b/bykov/ Some stories by Bykav in Russian


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