Vasily Grossman
A Writer's Freedom
- English
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- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
Vasily Grossman (1905-1964) was a successful Soviet author and journalist, but he is more often recognized in the West as Russian literature's leading dissident. How do we account for this paradox?
In the first collection of essays to explore the Russian author's life and works in English, leading experts present recent multidisciplinary research on Grossman's experiences, his place in the history of Russian literature, key themes in his writing, and the wider implications of his life and work in the realms of philosophy and politics. Born into a Jewish family in Berdychiv, Grossman was initially a supporter of the ideals of the Russian Revolution and the new Soviet state. During the Second World War, he worked as a correspondent for the Red Army newspaper and was the first journalist to write about the Nazi extermination camps. As a witness to the daily violence of the Soviet regime, Grossman became more and more aware of the nature and forms of totalitarian coercion, which gradually alienated him from the Soviet regime and earned him a reputation for dissidence.
A survey of the remarkable accomplishments and legacy left by this controversial and contradictory figure, Vasily Grossman reveals a writer's power to express freedom even under totalitarianism.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Copyright
- Contents
- Note on Transliteration
- Introduction
- 1 Free at Last: Vasily Grossman and the Battle for Stalingrad
- 2 Grossman and the Tradition of Classical Russian Literature
- 3 Ideological Words and Words from Life in Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman
- 4 Everything Flows but Ivan Grigorevich Stands Still: Grossman, Heraclitus, and the Prodigal Son
- 5 A Few Sad Short Stories: A Closer Look at Grossmanās Later Works
- 6 āWhat Is Human in Manā: The Levels of Freedom in Vasily Grossman
- 7 The Russian Idea, Lenin, and the Origins of the Totalitarian State in Vasily Grossmanās Forever Flowing
- 8 Vasily Grossman, Human Rights, and Political Institutions
- Contributors
- Index