The book by researcher Siarhei Shapran is dedicated to a less-known aspect of Vasil Bykaŭ's talent — fine art, to which the writer was drawn from childhood, but in which he could not fully realize himself, writes "Supolka Belarusian Writers".
500 pages and over 500 illustrations. Bykaŭ and art, Bykaŭ — about art.
Have the writer's front-line drawings survived, and what did he illustrate in the second half of the 1940s and 1950s in "Hrodzienskaya Pravda", where he worked at the time? What lectures on fine art did he take notes on? Which famous painters did he copy and write about?
What connected Bykaŭ with such diverse masters as B. Zaborov, A. Kashkurevich, H. Paplaŭski, M. Savitski, L. Shchamyalyoŭ, and M. Chagall? How do his close friends A. Adamovich, R. Baradulin, U. Karatkevich look in his caricatures? How did graphic artists joke with Vasil Bykaŭ, and how did he mock himself? To whom did he dedicate his last drawings? The reader will find answers to many questions in this richly illustrated book.
Look for it in "Akademkniga".
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