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The Road
Short Fiction and Essays
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The Road
The collected shorter works by the author of Life and Fate and Everything Flows, published in English for the first time.
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By the author of Life and Fate, now a major Radio 4 drama starring Kenneth Branagh.
Vasily Grossman is widely recognised as one of the outstanding literary figures of the twentieth century. The short fiction collected here—satire, comedy, tragedy, and pure narrative—illustrates the remarkable breadth of his work and demonstrates all the bold intelligence, delicate irony, and extraordinary vividness for which he has become known.
In addition to the eleven stories, this volume includes the complete text of The Hell of Treblinka, one of the first descriptions of a Nazi extermination camp; a powerful and harrowing piece of journalism written only weeks after the camp was dissolved.
Beautifully illuminated by Robert Chandler's introductions and endnotes, with photographs from the family archive, and an Afterword by Grossman's stepson, Fyodor Guber.
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The Road by Vasily Grossman is praised for its haunting portrayal of 20th-century historical events, capturing the harsh realities of Soviet life and the Second World War. Reviewers commend the variety and depth of his short stories and essays, highlighting Grossman's powerful descriptive abilities and his exploration of human resilience and disillusionment. The collection, translated by Robert and Elizabeth Chandler, is described as an essential work that combines journalism with fiction, offering a profound reflection on human nature and historical atrocities.
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INFORMATION
ISBN: 9780857381941
Publisher: Quercus Publishing
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 01 September 2011
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: MacLehose Press
Contributors:
- Translated by Elizabeth Chandler
- Translated by Robert and Elizabeth Chandler
- Translated by Elizabeth Chandler
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 25.0mm
Width: 130.0mm
Height: 199.0mm
Weight: 281g
Pages: 400
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About the Author
VASILY SEMIONOVICH GROSSMAN (1905-1964) was born into a Jewish family in Berdichev, in what is now Ukraine. In 1934 he published both "In the Town of Berdichev" - a short story that won him immediate acclaim - and the novel Gluckauf, about Donbas miners. During the Second World War, he worked as a reporter for the army newspaper Red Star; his "The Hell of Treblinka" (1944) was one of the first accounts of a Nazi death camp to be published in any language. His long novel Stalingrad was published in 1952. During the next few years Grossman worked on his second Stalingrad novel: Life and Fate. In February 1961, the KGB confiscated his typescript, but he was able to continue working on Everything Flows, which is yet more critical of the Soviet regime, until his last days. The short stories he wrote during his last three years are among his supreme achievements; English translations are included in The Road. Grossman died on 14 September 1964, on the eve of the twenty-third anniversary of the massacre of the Jews of Berdichev, in which his mother had died.
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