Книга: Vasily Grossman «Life And Fate»
Серия: "-" This sweeping account of the siege of Stalingrad aims to give as panoramic a view of Soviet society during World War II as Tolstoy did of Russian life in the epoch of the Napoleonic Wars. Completed in 1960 and then confiscated by the KGB, it remained unpublished at the author's death in 1964; it was smuggled into the West in 1980. Grossman offers a bitter, compelling vision of a totalitarian regime where the spirit of freedom that arose among those under fire was feared by the state at least as much as were the Nazis. His huge cast of characters includes an old Bolshevik now under arrest, a physicist pressured to make his scientific discoveries conform to "socialist reality" and a Jewish doctor en route to the gas chambers in occupied Russia. Ironically, just as Stalingrad is liberated from the Germans, many of the characters find themselves bound in new slavery to the Soviet government. Yet Grossman suggests that the spirit of freedom can never be completely crushed. His lengthy, absorbing novel, which rejected the compromises of a lifetime and earned its author denunciation and disgrace testifies eloquently to that spirit. Издательство: "Random House, Inc." (2006)
ISBN: 978-0-09-950616-4 |
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The Road: Short Fiction and Essays | By the author of Life and Fate, now a major Radio 4 drama starring Kenneth Branagh. Vasily Grossman is widely recognized as one of the outstanding literary figures of the twentieth century. The short… — Quercus/MacLehose Press, - Подробнее... | бумажная книга | ||
The Road: Short Fiction and Essays | By the author of Life and Fate, now a major Radio 4 drama starring Kenneth Branagh. Vasily Grossman is widely recognized as one of the outstanding literary figures of the twentieth century. The short… — Quercus/MacLehose Press, Подробнее... | бумажная книга |
Vasily Grossman
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Vasily Semyonovich Grossman (first name alternatively spelled as Vassily or Vasiliy, _ru. Василий Семёнович Гроссман),
Early life and career
Born Iosif Solomonovich Grossman in
Grossman began writing short stories while studying at
In the mid-1930s Grossman left his job as an engineer and committed himself fully to writing. By 1936 he had published two collections of stories, and in 1937 was accepted into the privileged Union of Writers. During the
War reporter
When the
Grossman's descriptions of
Conflict with the Soviet regime
Grossman participated in the assembly of the Black Book, a project of the
Grossman also criticized Because of state persecution, only a few of Grossman's post-war works were published during his lifetime. After he submitted for publication his With the "Thaw period" underway after the death of Stalin, Grossman wrote to "Life and Fate", as well as his last major novel, "Forever Flowing" (Все течет, 1961), were considered a threat to the Legacy "Life and Fate" was published in 1980 in "Life and Fate" is considered to be an autobiographical work. Robert Chandler, the novel's English translator, has written in his introduction to the Harvill edition that its leading character, Viktor Shtrum, "is a portrait of the author himself," reflecting in particular his anguish at the murder of his mother at the Berdichev Ghetto. Chapter 18, a letter from Shtrum's mother, Anna, has been dramatized for the stage and film "The Last Letter" (2002), directed by Some critics have compared Grossman's novels to Notes Quotes *...there is no higher happiness than to be able to crawl on one's stomach, out of the camp, blind, one's legs amputated, and to die in freedom, even if only ten yards from the cursed barbed wire. *...only one form of retribution is visited upon an executioner — the fact that he looks upon his victim as something other than a human being and thereby ceases to be a human being himself, and thereby executes himself as a human being. He is his own executioner... ("Forever Flowing") * "Man never understands that the cities he has built are not an integral part of Nature. If he wants to defend his culture from wolves and snowstorms, if he wants to save it from being strangled by weeds, he must keep his broom, spade, and rifle always at hand. If he goes to sleep, if he thinks about something else for a year or two, then everything's lost. The wolves come out of the forest, the thistles spread and everything is buried under dust and snow." ("Life and Fate") ee also * Publications *" References *"The Bones of Berdichev: The Life and Fate of Vasily Grossman" by John Gordon Garrard, Carol Garrard (ISBN 0-684-82295-4) External links *ru icon [http://www.mn.ru/print.php?2005-47-45 100th anniversary of Vasily Grossman's birthday] Interview with Yekaterina Korotkova (Grossman) Источник: Vasily Grossman
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*"Forever Flowing" (European Classics - ISBN 0-8101-1503-4)
*"The Black Book: The Ruthless Murder of Jews by German-Fascist Invaders Throughout the Temporarily-Occupied Regions of the Soviet Union and in the Death Camps of Poland during the War 1941–1945." by Vasily Grossman and
*"Commissar" (ISBN 6301884345)
*ru icon [http://lib.ru/PROZA/GROSSMAN/ Grossman's publications] at lib.ru
*"Vasiliy Grossman: The Genesis and Evolution of a Russian Heretic" by Frank Ellis (ISBN 0-85496-830-X)
* "A Writer at War: Vasily Grossman with the Red Army, 1941-1945" by
* [http://www.newyorker.com/critics/books/?060306crbo_books "Under Siege"] , from
*ru icon "The one who said the forbidden words. To centennial anniversary of Vasily Grossman", an article in
*Chandler, Robert. [http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/article_details.php?id=7739 "Vasily Grossman" (HTML)] [http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/pdfarticle.php?id=7739 (PDF)] , "Prospect", Issue 126, September 2006
* Eli Shaltiel: " [http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/780028.html Eyewitness to hell] " (
* [http://www.nybooks.com/shop/product-file/13/life5413/introduction.pdf Introduction from "Life and Fate"]
*ru icon [http://www.sem40.ru/famous2/m1249.shtml Святой Василий, не веривший в Бога] (St. Vasily Who Did Not Believe in God) by Antonina Krishchenko. 20 September 2002
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