Vasily Grossman
Birth date: December 12, 1905
Died: September 14, 1964
Vasily Grossman's Books
This is a vivid little book, as much a platform for the author’s musings on a variety of subjects as it is a travelogue. Grossman was a Jewish writer in the Soviet Union who had just had his masterwork confiscated by the authorities, when he traveled to Armenia to work on a “translation” of an Armen...
Introduction--Everything FlowsNotesChronologyA Note on Collectivisation and the Terror FaminePeople, Places and OrganisationsBiographical NoteFurther ReadingAcknowledgementsAn Afterword by Yekaterina Korotkova-Grossman
- Martiros Saryan (1880-1972) "Armenia's national artist" What a coincidence - just a few days after reading Burton Watson's charming The Rainbow World, I happen to read Vasily Grossman's An Armenian Sketchbook. I love little stories of real, existing human beings told by people who still love our...
IntroductionHistorical BackgroundThe Text and the TranslationA Few Books About Stalinist Russia and Vasily Grossman--Life and FateList of Chief Characters
bookshelves: radio-4, autumn-2011, published-1980, wwii, war, slavic, epic-proportions, philosophy, nazi-related, holocaust-genocide, classic, teh-brillianz, translation Recommended for: Brazilliant Laura et al Read from September 12 to 25, 2011 * Classic Serial in two parts starting 18th Septemb...
Log in with Facebook 
