Life and Fate

Informationen zum Autor Vasily Grossman was born in 1905. In 1941, he became a war reporter for the Red Army newspaper Red Star and came to be regarded as a legendary war hero. Life and Fate , his masterpiece, was considered a threat to the totalitarian regime, and Grossman was told that there was no chance of the novel being published for another 200 years. Grossman died in 1964. Robert Chandler 's translations from Russian include works by Alexander Pushkin, Andrey Platonov, Vasily Grossman and Hamid Ismailov. He is the editor and main translator of Russian Short Stories from Pushkin to Buida and Russian Magic Tales from Pushkin to Platonov , and together with Boris Dralyuk and Irina Mashinski he co-edited The Penguin Book of Russian Poetry . Klappentext Vasily Grossman was born in 1905. In 1941, he became a war reporter for the Red Army newspaper Red Star and came to be regarded as a legendary war hero. Life and Fate , his masterpiece, was considered a threat to the totalitarian regime, and Grossman was told that there was no chance of the novel being published for another 200 years. Grossman died in 1964. Zusammenfassung A novel that focuses on overshadowing the lives of a huge cast of Russian and German characters which looms the battle of Stalingrad.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Vasily Grossman, Grossman Vasily
• Mitarbeit: Robert Chandler (Übersetzung), Chandler Robert (Übersetzung)
• Verlag: Vintage UK
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 05.10.2006
• EAN: 9780099506164
• ISBN: 978-0-09-950616-4
• Seiten: 912
• Abmessung: 129 mm x 198 mm x 47 mm
• Themen: Belletristik > Erzählende Literatur; FICTION / War & Military, FICTION / Political, c 1940 to c 1949, War, combat and military adventure fiction, USSR, Soviet Union, FICTION / World Literature / Russia / 20th Century