5/20/2023 0 Comments Life and fate vasily![]() Presenting a vast panorama of World War II centered on the story of several individual heroes, “Life and Fate” has been compared to Tolstoy’s “War and Peace.” It is not a literary masterpiece Boris Pasternak regarded only “60 pages” in Grossman’s earlier 600-page novel, “For the Right Cause” (which foreshadowed the first part of “Life and Fate”), as “genuine.” The Russian poet Polina Barskova, who has written about Grossman, reports that Anna Akhmatova apparently did not bother to read “For the Right Cause. But “Life and Fate” was not published in the Soviet Union until 1988, 24 years after Grossman died at the age of 58, and even then only in an abridged version. ![]() Grossman himself, a famous war correspondent and author of other celebrated novels, was not arrested. agents confiscated several copies of the manuscript in Grossman’s Moscow apartment, as well as others in his friends’ apartments and the editorial offices of two journals. 14, 1961, Vasily Grossman’s novel “Life and Fate” was arrested. ![]() VASILY GROSSMAN AND THE SOVIET CENTURY By Alexandra Popoff ![]()
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