{"product_id":"buriakivets-yurii-pravo-na-velyku-dorohu-niu-york-1972","title":"Buryakivets Yuriy. The Right to the Big Road: A Novel. New York, 1972 — Signed by the Author","description":"\u003cp\u003eYurii Buryakivets. The Right to the Road: a novel.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNew York: Ridnyi Krai Publishing House, 1972. — Published by Vasyl Pustovyi. — Print run: 1,000 copies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSoftcover edition: cream paper; the author's surname, title, and a stylized road with a large circle printed in green. Before the title page is a photographic portrait of the author. The cover is soiled and darkened, most severely along the spine; minor paper loss at the top and bottom of the spine; the back cover is toned, with stains and creases. Endpapers are yellowed, the text block is tight, and the text paper is clean. On pages 30–31, there is underlining in red pen. Below the portrait is the signature \"Yurii Buryakivets\" in blue ink. On the English title page is a blue stamp \"Library of the Ukrainian Baptist Theological Seminary, Lviv\" with inventory No. 56; on the back cover, the number \"600\" is written in pencil. Condition: good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFirst edition, published during the author's lifetime, with the author's signature. The book has historical and cultural value and is of collector's interest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINFORMATION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSpring 1943, occupied Kyiv. Nineteen-year-old Stepan Kuleba, who escaped from a column of people being driven to Germany for forced labor, receives a letter from his father: the gendarmerie threatens to hang the entire family if the son does not report. What follows is an underground combat group, passes stolen from the German commandant's office, weapons buried in Shulyavka, and the evacuation of the city before the arrival of the front. The narrative is interwoven with novellas told by friends to one another.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYurii Buryakivets (1922–1996) was born in Chernobyl and lived in Kyiv from 1929. During the occupation, he served as a sailor and skipper in the Dnipro Commercial Shipping Fleet—like his hero, who serves in water transport—and later became a forced laborer in Bavaria; his brother Volodymyr died while working as a forced laborer near Regensburg. After the war, he studied at the Ukrainian Free University in Munich, lived in New York from 1949, and earned a Master of Philosophy degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1960. A poet whom critics called the singer of the Kyiv Polissya region, he turned to major prose in the 1960s and 1970s: \"The Invincible\" (1963), \"Passport to Ukraine\" (1970), \"The Right to the Road\" (1972).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book was published by the New York patron Vasyl Pustovyi, who also funded other collections by Buryakivets. The introductory article, dated autumn 1971, is not limited to praise: the author directly identifies the weaknesses of the poet's prose—overburdened monologues and a lack of psychological depth. The second edition of the novel was not published until 1990; this copy was in the library of the Ukrainian Baptist Theological Seminary in Lviv.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"archivevam","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64589816594803,"sku":"SKU-00235","price":400.0,"currency_code":"UAH","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0943\/7885\/2723\/files\/pr-15528940536179.jpg?v=1793989399","url":"https:\/\/archivevam.com\/en\/products\/buriakivets-yurii-pravo-na-velyku-dorohu-niu-york-1972","provider":"ARCHIVEVAM РІДКІСНІ КНИГИ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}