Research Catalog

Title

Vasily Grossman : a writer's freedom / edited by Anna Bonola and Giovanni Maddalena.

Publication

Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2018]

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Bonola, Anna
• Maddalena, Giovanni, 1971-

Description

vi, 173 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

"Grossman (1905-1964) was a successful a Soviet novelist, but he eventually appeared in the West as the leading authentic dissident of Russian literature. How to account for this paradox? Being a witness of the daily violence of the Soviet regime as well as the horrors of the Nazi prison camps, which he help liberating with the Red Army after the Battle of Stalingrad, Grossman became more and more aware of the nature and forms of totalitarian coercion. He could compare the two totalitarianisms that he was observing in their fatal clash during the Second World War and gradually alienated from the Soviet regime. From the mid-Fifties until his death his works were rejected for publication and his last masterpieces, Life and Fate (a novel about Stalingrad) and Everything Flows (a novel about the horrors of the Ukrainian famine) were first published in the West and finally in the USSR just at the beginning of the perestroika. From that moment the interest in Grossman's work spread to publishers and his last works have been translated into the major European languages, Life and Fate was produced on television, radio (BBC), and stage. This book is the first collection of essays in English on the Russian author. It presents the most recent and most accurate researches on the great writer to the English speaking public, providing tools for comprehending his key historical, literary, linguistic, philosophical, and political themes. It is a corroboration of Grossman's prophetic words: 'Time is not the enemy of genuine literary value; on the contrary, it is a, as well as a serene and loyal custodian.'"--

Subject

• Grossman, Vasiliĭ > Criticism and interpretation
• Grossman, Vasiliĭ
• 1900-1999
• Russian literature > 20th century > History and criticism
• Russian literature

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Call Number

JFE 19-1276

ISBN

• 0773554483
• 9780773554481
• 9780773554474
• 0773554475

OCLC

1031338404

Title

Vasily Grossman : a writer's freedom / edited by Anna Bonola and Giovanni Maddalena.

Publisher

Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2018]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

1900-1999

Added Author

Bonola, Anna, editor.

Maddalena, Giovanni, 1971- editor.

Other Form:

Online version: Vasily Grossman. Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2018] 9780773555402 (OCoLC)1048895919

Research Call Number

JFE 19-1276