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"Avtor samykh pronzitelʹnykh knig o voĭne", "samyĭ chitaemyĭ belorusskiĭ avtor vo vsem mire", "posledniĭ pisatelʹ realisticheskogo tolka Evropy" - vse ėto skazano o Vasile Bykove. Za tri dni͡a do nachala Velikoĭ Otechestvennoĭ voĭny Vasili͡u Bykovu ispolnilosʹ 17 let. V 1942 godu vcherashniĭ student Vitebskogo khudozhestvennogo uchilishcha byl prizvan na front, gde uchastvoval v boi͡akh za Krivoĭ Rog, Aleksandrii͡u, Znamenku, proshel po territorii Rumynii, Bolgarii, I͡Ugoslavii, Avstrii, dvazhdy byl ranen. V 1947 godu byl opublikovan ego pervyĭ rasskaz. Proizvedenii͡a Bykova oznamenovali v literature novyĭ ėtap osmyslenii͡a voennykh sobytiĭ, obʺediniv v sebe tragicheskui͡u konkretiku voĭny, "okopnui͡u pravdu", s vechnymi problemami bytii͡a. Kak v beschelovechnykh obstoi͡atelʹstvakh sokhranitʹ chelovechnostʹ? Chto spasatʹ sredi uzhasov voĭny - telo ili dushu? Radi chego stradaet chelovek, tolʹko li dli͡a sebi͡a zhivet? Na ėti i drugie voprosy ishchut otvety geroi Vasili͡a Bykova, vydai͡ushchegosi͡a mastera voennoĭ prozy KhKh veka.V sbornik voshli znamenitye povesti Vasili͡a Bykova "Alʹpiĭskai͡a ballada" i "Dozhitʹ do rassveta".

"The author of the most poignant books about the war", "the most widely read Belarusian author in the whole world", "the last realistic writer in Europe" — all this is said about Vasil Bykov. Three days before the start of the Great Patriotic War, Vasil Bykov turned 17 years old. In 1942, yesterday's student of the Vitebsk Art College was called up to the front, where he participated in the battles for Krivoy Rog, Alexandria, Znamenka, passed through Romania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Austria, and was wounded twice. In 1947, his first short story was published. Bykov's works marked a new stage in the literary understanding of military events, combining the tragic specifics of the war, the "trench truth", with the eternal problems of existence. How can humanity be preserved in inhumane circumstances? Which is to save amid the horrors of war — the body or the soul? What does a person suffer for, does he live only for himself? The characters of Vasil Bykov, an outstanding master of military prose of the twentieth century, are looking for answers to these and other questions.The collection includes the famous novels by Vasil Bykov "The Alpine Ballad" and "To Live until Dawn".