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Vasily Grossman (1905–1964)

Autor(a) de Life and Fate

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About the Author

Grossman, a graduate in physics and mathematics from Moscow University, worked first as a chemical engineer and became a published writer during the mid-1930s. His early stories and novel deal with such politically orthodox themes as the struggle against the tsarist regime, the civil war, and the mostrar mais building of the new society. Grossman served as a war correspondent during World War II, publishing a series of sketches and stories about his experiences. Along with Ehrenburg, he edited the suppressed documentary volume on the fate of Soviet Jews, The Black Book. In 1952 the first part of his new novel, For the Good of the Cause, appeared and was sharply criticized for its depiction of the war. The censor rejected another novel, Forever Flowing (1955), which was circulated in samizdat and published in the West. The secret police confiscated a sequel to For the Good of the Cause, the novel Life and Fate, in 1961, but a copy was smuggled abroad and published in 1970. Grossman's books were issued in the Soviet Union in the late 1980s and have met with both admiration and, on part of the nationalist right wing, considerable hostility. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos

Séries

Obras por Vasily Grossman

Life and Fate (1984) 3,421 exemplares
Everything Flows (1970) 853 exemplares
Stalingrad (1952) 650 exemplares
The Road (1998) 396 exemplares
An Armenian Sketchbook (1998) 247 exemplares
The People Immortal (1942) 90 exemplares
Brieven aan mijn moeder (2011) 12 exemplares
La cagnetta (2013) 12 exemplares
Ucraina senza ebrei (2023) 8 exemplares
Oeuvres (2006) 8 exemplares
Las buenas compañías (2011) 7 exemplares
Fosforo (1991) 5 exemplares
Bem Hajam! (2014) 5 exemplares
Que el bien os acompañe (2019) 4 exemplares
La Madonna a Treblinka (2007) 3 exemplares
In the Town of Berdichev (2007) 3 exemplares
מוטיבים יהודיים 2 (1990) 2 exemplares
2007 2 exemplares
Peur (2006) 1 exemplar
New Writing 2: Fall, 1936 (1936) 1 exemplar
No Beautiful Nights (1944) 1 exemplar
Kolchugin's Youth 1 exemplar
Die Kommissarin : Erzählung (1989) 1 exemplar
Stjepan Koljčugin 1 exemplar

Associated Works

The Penguin Book of Hell (2018) — Contribuidor — 182 exemplares
Great Soviet Short Stories (1962) — Contribuidor — 76 exemplares
The Red Thread: Twenty Years of NYRB Classics: A Selection (2019) — Contribuidor — 55 exemplares
Granta 145: Ghosts (2018) — Contribuidor — 49 exemplares
Der Irrtum. Russische Erzählungen. (1999) — Contribuidor — 6 exemplares
Moderne russische Erzähler — Autor — 2 exemplares

Etiquetado

Conhecimento Comum

Nome canónico
Grossman, Vassili
Nome legal
Grossman, Vasilij Semenovic
Data de nascimento
1905
Data de falecimento
1964
Localização do túmulo
Troyekurovskoye Cemetery Moscow, Russia
Sexo
male
Nacionalidade
Rusland
País (no mapa)
Russia
Local de nascimento
Berdichev, Ukraine, Russian Empire
Local de falecimento
Moscow, Soviet Union
Locais de residência
Moscow, Soviet Union
Geneva, Switzerland
Kiev, Ukraine, Soviet Union
Educação
Moscow State University
Ocupações
author
journalist
war correspondent
chemical engineer
Organizações
Red Star (Krasnaya Zvezda)
Unity
Prémios e menções honrosas
Red Banner of Labor

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Born in the Ukraine in 1905, Vasilly Grossman published his first novel 'Stepan Gluchkauf 'in 1933. Grossman was Jewish and his place of birth was one of the largest Jewish communities in Eastern Europe. Grossman is most notable for his work as a journalist during WWII and his eyewitness accounts of the fall of Stalingrad, the fall of Berlin and the Holocaust. He published the first account of a German death camp written by a journalist. He went on to publish a novel about Stalingrad in 1952 called "For a Just Cause" and in 1960 "Life and Fate".

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Discussions

Life and Fate featured on BBC R4 em Fans of Russian authors (Setembro 2011)
Life and Fate: Part 1 em Group Reads - Literature (Novembro 2009)

Críticas

Vida y destino consigue emocionar, conmover y perturbar al lector desde la primera línea y resiste -si no supera- la comparación con otras obras maestras como Guerra y paz o Doctor Zhivago. En la batalla de Stalingrado, el ejército nazi y las tropas soviéticas escriben una de las páginas más sangrientas de la historia. Pero la historia también está hecha de pequeños retazos de vida de la gente que lucha para sobrevivir al terror del régimen estalinista y al horror del exterminio en los campos, para que la libertad no sea aplastada por el yugo del totalitarismo, para que el ser humano no pierda su capacidad de sentir y amar. En la literatura hay pocas novelas que hayan logrado transmitir esto con tanta intensidad. Vida y destino es una novela de guerra, una saga familiar, una novela política, una novela de amor. Es todo eso y mucho más. Vasili Grossman aspiraba quizás a cambiar el mundo con su novela pero lo que es seguro es que Vida y destino le cambia la vida a quien se adentra en sus páginas… (mais)
 
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Jmmon | 86 outras críticas | Feb 5, 2024 |
Dipped into this one after seeing it recommended as a good book about the Caucasus region, an area of the world I find fascinating for its long history and position as a crossroads of far-flung cultures. I under that Grossman is much better known for his hefty novels about WWII. What we have here, however, is a slight book, written only a few years before the author’s death in the early sixties.

There is a lot of good writing here, of the type a good writer might fill a notebook with in between bigger projects. It’s wide ranging, associative, rambly from time to time, and it’s clear that Grossman wrote it as it came without feeling pressure to make it more than it was. There is no implication that this book is meant to give any image of Armenia other than the impressions of an aging man who doesn’t understand the language and is a stranger to the culture - Grossman says as much a bunch of times throughout the book.

I use the word “aging” to describe the author because I can’t remember the last time I read a book that so felt like the work of an old man. Grossman was only in his late fifties at the time, but late fifties in 1962 Soviet Union is obviously a lot different than it is today. Throughout the book, you feel like Grossman is struggling to figure out his place in the world, the scale of his fame, and what legacy he would leave behind. These are perhaps natural reactions for a famous writer travelling to a place where he is nearly anonymous, a feeling of obsolescence and almost spectral irreality that can strike you when traveling in a distant, foreign land. We are treated to lengthy descriptions of various maladies that are bothering him, including: one, a long, highly relatable description of waking up in the middle of the night with the sudden realization that you and everyone you know will die; and two, two very dramatic descriptions of the author frantically trying to find a place to take a shit.

All of this is very understandable and Grossman deserves commendation for depicting with honesty the pitfalls of travelling to foreign lands in later life. But there is a difficult to define feeling of “I’m kind of a big deal back home” that imbues the whole book, a feeling of overbearing “me-ness”. This isn’t always bad and wouldn’t be a problem at all if I’d come to this book looking to learn more about Grossman. I didn’t though; I came to this book to learn more about Armenia. We do get some interesting observations of the Armenian landscape and Armenian people, but then find that they are repeated in all but the same words later in the book.
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hdeanfreemanjr | 5 outras críticas | Jan 29, 2024 |
Quando nel 1943, dopo due anni di occupazione tedesca, Vasilij Grossman entra al seguito dell’Armata Rossa nei territori liberati dell’Ucraina orientale, a colpirlo non sono tanto la distruzione e la sofferenza che la furia nazista si è lasciata alle spalle, ma « la pace e il silenzio della morte » che regnano ovunque. Soprattutto, è il silenzio – « più spaventoso delle lacrime e delle maledizioni ... più spaventoso dei gemiti e dei lamenti laceranti » – di un intero popolo, massacrato con una sistematicità tale che in molte città, in molti villaggi non un solo ebreo è ancora in vita: « Dov’è il popolo ebraico| ... Dove sono i milioni di persone che tre anni fa lavoravano e vivevano su questa terra in paci$ca amicizia con gli ucraini| ». Ben prima di trovarsi dinanzi all’« inferno di Treblinka » e che i crimini nazisti siano svelati al mondo in tutta la loro efferatezza, Grossman, con l’usuale, sorprendente lucidità, con la sua prosa acuminata e cristallina, non si accontenta di rispondere a questa domanda, ma scandaglia le cause di quello che ai suoi occhi già si delinea come « il crimine più grande mai commesso nella storia ». (fonte: retro di copertina)… (mais)
 
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Popularidade
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Avaliação
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ISBN
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Línguas
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