Description: This sweeping account of the siege of Stalingrad aims to give as panoramic a view of Soviet society during World War II as Tolstoy did of Russian life in the epoch of the Napoleonic Wars. Completed in 1960 and then confiscated by the KGB, it remained unpublished at the author's death in 1964; it was smuggled into the West in 1980. Grossman offers a bitter, compelling vision of a totalitarian regime where the spirit of freedom that arose among those under fire was feared by the state at least as much as were the Nazis. His huge cast of characters includes an old Bolshevik now under arrest, a physicist pressured to make his scientific discoveries conform to "socialist reality" and a Jewish doctor en route to the gas chambers in occupied Russia. Ironically, just as Stalingrad is liberated from the Germans, many of the characters find themselves bound in new slavery to the Soviet government. Yet Grossman suggests that the spirit of freedom can never be completely crushed. His lengthy, absorbing novel, which rejected the compromises of a lifetime and earned its author denunciation and disgrace testifies eloquently to that spirit.
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EAN: 9780099506164
UPC: 9780099506164
ISBN: 9780099506164
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Item Length: 19.8 cm
Book Title: Life and Fate
Item Height: 198mm
Item Width: 129mm
Author: Vasily Grossman
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Topic: Books, World War II
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
Publication Year: 2006
Item Weight: 653g
Number of Pages: 912 Pages
