Vasyl’ Stus and death: on the thirtieth anniversary of his death

Vasyl’ Stus and death: on the thirtieth anniversary of his death

What does Stus’s death mean to us thirty years after that tragic day? Are we now able to understand his human and artistic legacy? What is the relationship between Stus’s actual death and the image of death that we constantly, almost obsessively encounter in his poetry?

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