Everything Flows

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. Klappentext 'Everything Flows is as important a novel as anything written by Solzhenitsyn, and Robert Chandler's superb translation makes it a joy to read' Antony Beevor Ivan Grigoryevich has been in the Gulag for thirty years. Released after Stalin's death, he finds that the years of terror have imposed a collective moral slavery. He must struggle to find a place for himself in an unfamiliar world. Grossman tells the stories of those people entwined with Ivan's fate: his cousin Nikolay, a scientist who never let his conscience interfere with his career, Pinegin, the informer who had Ivan sent to the camps and Anna Sergeyevna, Ivan's lover, who tells of her involvement as an activist in the Terror famine of 1932-3. Everything Flows is Vasily Grossman's final testament, written after the Soviet authorities suppressed Life and Fate . 'Vasily Grossman is the Tolstoy of the USSR' Martin Amis Zusammenfassung Ivan Grigoryevich has been in the Gulag for thirty years. Released after Stalin's death, he finds that the years of terror have imposed a collective moral slavery. He must struggle to find a place for himself in an unfamiliar world.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Vasily Grossman, Grossman Vasily
• Collaboration: Robert Chandler (Traduction), Chandler Robert (Traduction)
• Edition: Vintage UK
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Poche format B
• Sortie: 05.05.2011
• EAN: 9780099519164
• ISBN: 978-0-09-951916-4
• Pages: 320
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 24 mm
• Thèmes: Vintage Classics; Vintage Classics
• Catégories: Littérature > Littérature (récits); FICTION / Historical / General, Historical fiction, Russia, FICTION / Literary, Fiction in translation, c 1950 to c 1959, c 1930 to c 1939, FICTION / World Literature / Scotland / 20th Century