Vasily Grossman (1905–1964)
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Grossman, a graduate in physics and mathematics from Moscow University, worked first as a chemical engineer and became a published writer during the mid-1930s. His early stories and novel deal with such politically orthodox themes as the struggle against the tsarist regime, the civil war, and the toon meer building of the new society. Grossman served as a war correspondent during World War II, publishing a series of sketches and stories about his experiences. Along with Ehrenburg, he edited the suppressed documentary volume on the fate of Soviet Jews, The Black Book. In 1952 the first part of his new novel, For the Good of the Cause, appeared and was sharply criticized for its depiction of the war. The censor rejected another novel, Forever Flowing (1955), which was circulated in samizdat and published in the West. The secret police confiscated a sequel to For the Good of the Cause, the novel Life and Fate, in 1961, but a copy was smuggled abroad and published in 1970. Grossman's books were issued in the Soviet Union in the late 1980s and have met with both admiration and, on part of the nationalist right wing, considerable hostility. (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder
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Algemene kennis
- Gangbare naam
- Grossman, Vasili
- Officiële naam
- Grossman, Vasilij Semenovic
- Geboortedatum
- 1905
- Overlijdensdatum
- 1964
- Graflocatie
- Troyekurovskoye Cemetery Moscow, Russia
- Geslacht
- male
- Nationaliteit
- Rusland
- Land (voor op de kaart)
- Russia
- Geboorteplaats
- Berdichev, Ukraine, Russian Empire
- Plaats van overlijden
- Moscow, Soviet Union
- Woonplaatsen
- Moscow, Soviet Union
Geneva, Switzerland
Kiev, Ukraine, Soviet Union - Opleiding
- Moscow State University
- Beroepen
- author
journalist
war correspondent
chemical engineer - Organisaties
- Red Star (Krasnaya Zvezda)
Unity - Prijzen en onderscheidingen
- Red Banner of Labor
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- Born in the Ukraine in 1905, Vasilly Grossman published his first novel 'Stepan Gluchkauf 'in 1933. Grossman was Jewish and his place of birth was one of the largest Jewish communities in Eastern Europe. Grossman is most notable for his work as a journalist during WWII and his eyewitness accounts of the fall of Stalingrad, the fall of Berlin and the Holocaust. He published the first account of a German death camp written by a journalist. He went on to publish a novel about Stalingrad in 1952 called "For a Just Cause" and in 1960 "Life and Fate".
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Life and Fate featured on BBC R4 in Fans of Russian authors (september 2011)
Life and Fate: Part 1 in Group Reads - Literature (november 2009)
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When Khrushchev spoke openly about the Stalin terror in 1961, Grossman thought the time for his magnum opus "Life and Fate" had come. He was devastated when the manuscript (and all copies) was taken by the KGB. Fortunately for us, he did hide two copies at friends, one was smuggled out of the USSR and first published in Switserland in 1980, 16 years after Grossman died.
The story takes place around the Battle of Stalingrad (1942-1943), following the Shaposhnikova family and some their friends. Grossman paints a wide and very vivid portrait of Sovjet (and some German) citizens in World War II.
Most gripping were the last letter of a Jewish mother to her son, she writes from the German occupied Ukrain and will be killed and her voyage freight train to the gaz chamber in Auschwitz; and the downfall of a loyal communist, victim of Stalins brutal reign.
All characters are very human, with human flaws, making mistakes, that sometimes are held harsh against them. Everyone tries to survive in his own tiny way, some do survive, others are crushed in the war, in the camps, in Stalinism...
I was blown away by this epic story. It is no easy read, both the content and the many characters can be overwhelming at times. I learned a lot, not only about Stalingrad and its significance in WW II, but also about Stalin, the great purge of 1937 and the early days of the USSR.
With a lot of footnotes and over 200 characters, I found it handy to keep two extra bookmarks at the footnotes and the list of characters at the end of the book.… (meer)