Книга: Vasily Grossman «A Writer At War»
Производитель: "Random House, Inc." Vasily Grossman`s masterpiece Life and Fate is rated by many as the greatest Russian novel of the twentieth century. Among its admirers is Antony Beevor, the bestselling author of Stalingrad and Berlin. A Writer at War is based on the notebooks in which Grossman gathered his raw material. It depicts as never before the crushing conditions on the Eastern Front and the lives and deaths of infantrymen, tank drivers, pilots, snipers and civilians alike. Deemed unfit for service when the Germans invaded in 1941, Grossman became a special correspondent for Red Star, the Red Army newspaper. Remarkably, he spent three of the following four years at the front observing with a writer`s eye the most pitiless fighting ever known. Grossman witnessed almost all the major events on the Eastern Front: the appalling defeats and desperate retreats of 1941, the defence of Moscow and fighting in the Ukraine. In August 1942 he was posted to Stalingrad where he remained during four months of brutal street-fighting. He was present at the battle of Kursk, the largest tank engagement in history, and, as the Red Army advanced, he reached Berdichev where his worst fears for his mother and other relations were confirmed. A Jew himself, he undertook the faithful recording of Holocaust atrocities as their extent dawned. His supremely powerful report`The Hell of Treblinka`was used in evidence at the Nuremberg tribunal. A Writer at War offers the one outstanding eye-witness account of the war on the Eastern Front and perhaps the best descriptions ever of what Grossman called`the ruthless truth of war`. Издательство: "Random House, Inc." (2006)
ISBN: 978-1-84595-015-6 |
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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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