The People Immortal

ISBN: 9781529414745 Categorii: Diverse, Diverse. An apariție: 2022 Autor: Vasily Grossman Editură: MacLehose Press Tip copertă: Paperback Număr pagini: 352 Stoc: Stoc limitat

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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.

A heavily redacted English translation of The People Immortal was published in 1946. This current edition is the first that reflects Grossman's original text.

Limba
Engleza
Autor
Vasily Grossman
Data Publicarii
2022
Editura
MacLehose Press
Latime
15.2
Inaltime
23.2
Tip Coperta
Paperback
Nr Pag
352
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