From 3 November to 10 January, in the National Library of Belarus runs an anniversary book exhibition “The star is shining, and the wreath never fades...” timed to the 120th birthday of Maxim Bogdanovich.
The work by Maxim Bogdanovich holds a special place in the treasury of classical Belarusian literature. He was not only a brilliant poet, but also a talented literary critic, historian and linguist.
During his short life Maxim Bogdanovich wrote many works, having enriched Belarusian poetry with poems of thorough content and interesting form. The well-known poet apprehended traditions and experience of the outstanding figures of Russian, Belarusian and foreign poetic cultures. By his versatile creative experience and application of many-sided forms and literary styles, rhythms and sizes he raised Belarusian prosody – flexible, harmonious and musical – on a higher step.
Maxim Bogdanovich’s poetry always fascinates readers, researchers and historians of literature and art. The creativity of the original poet is of greatest importance as an expressive monument to the epoch in which the author lived and worked and which this delicate artist of a word brightly depicted with his pen.
The anniversary book exhibition “The star is shining, and the wreath never fades...” dedicated to the 120th birthday of Maxim Bogdanovich presents around 200 documents. This is books of his works and literature about the life and work of the great classic of Belarusian literature.
Three lifetime editions are on display: the books “Belaruskaye adradzhenne” (“Belarusian renaissance”) published in 1915 and 1916 in Ukraine, and the book “Bratja-chekhi” ("The Czech Brothers”) printed in Yaroslavl in 1914. Alongside with modern editions the exhibition presents a facsimile of the book of Maxim Bogdanovich’s selected poems “Vyanok” (“The Wreath”), the complete set of works by Maxim Bogdanovich in 3 volumes, and more than 30 books of the great poet’s works. The exposition also includes about 40 books of translations of Maxim Bogdanovich’s poetry into Slavic and European languages.
Besides, the exhibition presents around 120 separate editions and periodical articles by known literary critics and researchers of Maxim Bogdanovich’s work such as О. Loyko, L. Zuborev, S. Majkhrovich, А. Bachilo, bibliographer and literary critic N. Vatatsi and many others.
The exhibition is designed for all readers interested in the life and work of classic of Belarusian literature, poet, translator, critic, publicist and historian of native literature Maxim Bogdanovich.
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