Книга: The People Immortal (Grossman Vasily); MacLehose Press, 2022

Set during the catastrophic defeats of the war's first months, it tracks a Red Army regiment that wins a minor victory in eastern Belorussia but fails to exploit this success. A battalion is then entrusted with the task of slowing the German advance, and eventually encircled, before ultimately breaking out and joining with the rest of the Soviet forces.

Grossman's descriptions of the natural world - and his characters' relationship to it - are both vivid and unexpected, as are his memorable character sketches: eleven-year-old Lionya is determined to hang on to his toy revolver as he walks a long distance behind German lines; his defiant grandmother slaps a German officer in the face and is shot; Kotenko, a fiercely anti-Soviet peasant who initially welcomes the Germans, hangs himself in despair when they treat him with contempt; and Semion Ignatiev, a womanizer and gifted story-teller, turns out to be the boldest and most resourceful of the rank-and file soldiers.

Grossman spent most of the war years close to the front line. But The People Immortal is far from being mere morale-boosting propaganda. On the contrary, as letters included in this volume make clear, it was read as a textbook, and as a work of military education. This edition includes not only the unredacted novel itself, translated here for the first time since 1946, but also a wealth of background material.

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Параметр	Значение
ISBN	9781529414738
Автор(ы)	Grossman Vasily
Вес	0.65
Возрастное ограничение	16+
Год издания	2022
Жанр	проза на иностранном языке
Издатель	MacLehose Press
Издательство	MacLehose Press
Кол-во страниц	350
Количество книг	1
Количество страниц	350
Обложка	твердый переплёт, суперобложка
Оформление обложки	суперобложка
Тип обложки	твердая