Life and Fate: Introduction by Polly Jones (Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Series)

Grossman, Vasily

ISBN 10: 059332126X / ISBN 13: 9780593321263

Editore: Everyman's Library, 2022

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• Titolo: Life and Fate: Introduction by Polly Jones (Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Series)
• Editore: Everyman's Library
• Data di pubblicazione: 2022
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 059332126X
• ISBN 13: 9780593321263
• Rilegatura: Rilegato
• Condizione: quasi ottimo
• Condizione della sovraccoperta: come nuovo
• Dimensioni: 1,67 L x 5,35 A x 8,37 P (pollici) 1,67 pollici di larghezza per 5,35 pollici di altezza per 8,37 pollici di profondità
• Peso: 28,784 once
• Cataloghi dei venditori:
  • Classics
  • Collectible

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Riassunto

This panoramic novel about a family scattered across the Soviet Union and Europe during World War II is a monument of modern Russian literature by the Ukrainian-born writer hailed as “the Tolstoy of the USSR.”

Suppressed by the KGB and years later smuggled out of the Soviet Union to be published, Vasily Grossman’s novel is an unsparing story of ordinary Russians tragically caught between the fascism of the invading Nazis and the oppression of their own Soviet government.
 
The sprawling plot follows the travails of the extended family of Viktor Shtrum along the vast eastern front of the war. Shtrum is a brilliant nuclear physicist who faces rising anti-Semitism in Moscow while his relatives navigate the threat of camps and prisons on both the Soviet and the Nazi sides. Grossman’s extensive wartime reporting, combined with his Tolstoyan narrative skills, allow him to portray with unprecedented detail and authenticity the human cost of the struggle between two freedom-denying powers. 
 
In vividly rendered scenes that range from the dramatic battle of Stalingrad to the remote Siberian gulag, and encompassing characters ranging from a grieving mother to a woman in love and from a six-year-old boy on the way to a gas chamber to Stalin and Hitler, Grossman’s masterpiece is a profound and moving reckoning with the darkness of the twentieth century and a testament to the stubborn persistence of kindness and hope.

Everyman's Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free cream-colored paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket.

Informazioni sull?autore

VASILY GROSSMAN (1905–1964) was born in Berdichev in Ukraine, in one of the largest Jewish communities in eastern Europe. After studying chemistry and working as an engineer, he was discovered by Maxim Gorky and began publishing his writing. During World War II, Grossman covered the defense of Stalingrad and the fall of Berlin and he wrote the first account of a German death camp. The manuscript of Life and Fate was seized by the KGB in 1960 and Grossman did not live to see it published, but it was smuggled out and published in Europe and North America in the early 1980s.

ABOUT THE INTRODUCER: POLLY JONES is Associate Professor of Russian and Schrecker-Barbour Fellow at University College, University of Oxford. She has published widely on Soviet cultural history; she is the author of Revolution Rekindled and Myth, Memory, Trauma: Rethinking the Stalinist Past in the Soviet Union and is the editor of Writing Russian Lives: The Poetics and Politics of Russian Biography.