$27.55
- Paperback
192 pages
- Release Date
3 July 2014
Summary
Few writers had to confront so many of the last century’s mass tragedies as Vasily Grossman. He is likely to be remembered, above all, for the terrifying clarity with which he writes about the Shoah, the Battle of Stalingrad and the Terror Famine in the Ukraine.
An Armenian Sketchbook, however, shows us a very different Grossman; it is notable for its warmth, its sense of fun and for the benign humility that is always to be found in his writing.
After the ‘arrest’ - a…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781782060888 |
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| ISBN-10: | 178206088X |
| Author: | Vasily Grossman, Elizabeth Chandler, Robert Chandler |
| Publisher: | Quercus Publishing |
| Imprint: | MacLehose Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Release Date: | 3 July 2014 |
| Weight: | 162g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 125mm x 15mm |
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Critics Review
‘Grossman proves an entertainingly philosophical, kindly companion; he is a romantic, but he is also humorous’ Irish Times .
‘A beguiling mixture of travelogue and personal musings’ New Statesman. * New Statesman *
‘Grossman proves an entertainingly philosophical, kindly companion; he is a romantic, but he is also humorous’ Irish Times. * Irish Times *
‘An extraordinary lyrical account of his acquaintance with the country’ Independent. * Independent *
‘A book wonderful in every way’ Spectator. * Spectator *
‘This vivid and moving account … draws a rich cultural picture’ Lady. * Lady *
About The Author
Vasily Grossman
VASILY SEMIONOVICH GROSSMAN (1905-1964) was born into a Jewish family in Berdichev, in what is now Ukraine. In 1934 he published both “In the Town of Berdichev” - a short story that won him immediate acclaim - and the novel Gluckauf, about Donbas miners. During the Second World War, he worked as a reporter for the army newspaper Red Star; his “The Hell of Treblinka” (1944) was one of the first accounts of a Nazi death camp to be published in any language. His long novel Stalingrad was published in 1952. During the next few years Grossman worked on his second Stalingrad novel: Life and Fate. In February 1961, the KGB confiscated his typescript, but he was able to continue working on Everything Flows, which is yet more critical of the Soviet regime, until his last days. The short stories he wrote during his last three years are among his supreme achievements; English translations are included in The Road. Grossman died on 14 September 1964, on the eve of the twenty-third anniversary of the massacre of the Jews of Berdichev, in which his mother had died.
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