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The People Immortal
Autor: Vasily Grossman
One of Grossman's three great war novels - alongside Life and Fate and
Stalingrad - The People Immortal is both a work of fiction and an important
contribution to the Soviet war effort.
Set during the catastrophic defeats of the war's... Viac o knihe
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One of Grossman's three great war novels - alongside Life and Fate and
Stalingrad - The People Immortal is both a work of fiction and an important
contribution to the Soviet war effort.
Set during the catastrophic defeats of the war's first months, it tracks a Red Army
regiment that wins a minor victory in eastern Belorussia but fails to exploit this success. A
battalion is then entrusted with the task of slowing the German advance, and eventually
encircled, before ultimately breaking out and joining with the rest of the Soviet forces.
Grossman's descriptions of the natural world - and his characters' relationship to it - are
both vivid and unexpected, as are his memorable character sketches: eleven-year-old
Lionya is determined to hang on to his toy revolver as he walks a long distance behind
German lines; his defiant grandmother slaps a German officer in the face and is shot;
Kotenko, a fiercely anti-Soviet peasant who initially welcomes the Germans, hangs
himself in despair when they treat him with contempt; and Semion Ignatiev, a womanizer
and gifted story-teller, turns out to be the boldest and most resourceful of the rank-and
file soldiers.
Grossman spent most of the war years close to the front line. But The People Immortal is
far from being mere morale-boosting propaganda. On the contrary, as letters included in
this volume make clear, it was read as a textbook, and as a work of military education.
This edition includes not only the unredacted novel itself, translated here for the first time
since 1946, but also a wealth of background material.
Translated from the Russian by Robert and Elizabeth Chandler
- Vydavateľstvo: Quercus
- Rok vydania: 2022
- Formát: Paperback
- Jazyk: Anglický jazyk
- ISBN: 9781529414745
