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The People Immortal

The People Immortal


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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


Podrobnosti

Autor Vasily Grossman
Vydavateľ Maclehose Press
Jazyk anglický
Väzbamäkká
Počet strán304
Formát216 x 135
EAN9781529414745
Rok vydania2022
Edícia Súčasná beletria

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Vasily Grossman

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