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Life and fate / Vasily Grossman ; translated and with an introduction by Robert Chandler

By:

Grossman, Vasilii Semenovich, (, 1905-1964)

Contributor(s):

Chandler, Robert

Material type: Text

TextSeries: New York Review Books classicsPublication details: New York : New York Review Books , c2006.Description: xxxii, 880 p. ; 21 cmISBN:

9781590172018

Uniform titles:

Zhizn i sudba . English

Subject(s):

World War, 1939-1945 -- --Fiction

DDC classification:

FIC GRO

LOC classification:

PG3476.G7 Z3513 2006

Summary: Grossman (1905-64) hoped that Life and Fate (1960), the sequel to his World War II novel In a Just Cause would appear in the USSR. Even during the 1960s ``thaw,'' that proved im possible. The translator compares the book to War and Peace , but it is closer to Solzhenitsyn's The First Circle in portraying a society that knows neither physical nor spiritual peace. Grossman uses one family's experiences of the months of the Stalingrad campaign to show the entire mad tapestry woven by Stalin and Hitler. Like Solzhenitsyn, he depicts laboratories, prisons, and the Soviet elite's uneasy privilege, but he also covers both sides of the front and follows Jews to the gas chambers. This sprawling, uneven novel is wrenching, and compelling in its portrait of loyal citizens who repel the Nazi invaders only to face renewed repression at home.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Fiction / Ficción	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. Sala Ingles	General	FIC GRO (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		015668

Originally published: New York : Harper & Row, c1985.

Grossman (1905-64) hoped that Life and Fate (1960), the sequel to his World War II novel In a Just Cause would appear in the USSR. Even during the 1960s ``thaw,'' that proved im possible. The translator compares the book to War and Peace , but it is closer to Solzhenitsyn's The First Circle in portraying a society that knows neither physical nor spiritual peace. Grossman uses one family's experiences of the months of the Stalingrad campaign to show the entire mad tapestry woven by Stalin and Hitler. Like Solzhenitsyn, he depicts laboratories, prisons, and the Soviet elite's uneasy privilege, but he also covers both sides of the front and follows Jews to the gas chambers. This sprawling, uneven novel is wrenching, and compelling in its portrait of loyal citizens who repel the Nazi invaders only to face renewed repression at home.

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