Stalingrado- 2023

Name: Stalingrado- 2023
Author: Vasili Grossman
ISBN: 9788417971359

by Vasili Grossman, Andréi Kozinets

1200 pages2023Galaxia Gutenberg, S.L.ISBN 9788417971359

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Vasili Grossman wanted to record everything he had experienced during the second World War, the death of his mother and his stepson, and his experience as a war correspondent, in an ambitious two-part novel cycle. The first, started in 1943 and published in 1952 under the title For a Just Cause, had to be titled Stalingrad. The second, written from 1949, with the same protagonists, would be Life and Fate. Of the two, Life and Fate is a classic read by thousands of readers around the world. The first, on the other hand, has been considered a novel of lesser rank. What's more, Efim Etkind and Simon Markish, two of the people who did the most to save the Life and Fate manuscript, publishing it for the first time in the West in 1980, in the prologue to said edition, affirmed that For a Just Cause 'it could have won a well-deserved Stalin Prize, because he overflowed with love for the socialist regime...' Could Grossman write two such unequal novels despite conceiving them as a whole and writing them one after the other? This edition answers this question. Apart from returning to the novel the title that Grossman wanted for her, Stalingrad, she reconstructs it for the first time with more than a hundred fragments, some of a couple of sentences, others of paragraphs and entire pages, that the Soviet censors forced to suppress. With this, the novel is enriched and filled with nuances, until it becomes a different work from the one that had been read. Now, as The Economist states, 'like Life and Fate, the new Stalingrad is a masterpiece'.

Publication Details

Publisher: Galaxia Gutenberg, S.L.
Published: 2023
Pages: 1200
ISBN: 9788417971359
Language: en

About Vasili Grossman

Васи́лий Семёнович Гро́ссман (настоящее имя — Ио́сиф Соломо́нович Гро́ссман; 29 ноября (12 декабря) 1905, Бердичев — 14 сентября 1964, Москва) — русский советский писатель и журналист, военный корреспондент, подполковник интендантской службы. Он родился в еврейской семье на Украине, которая тогда входила в состав Российской империи. Главная книга писателя — роман «Жизнь и судьба» — был конфискован в 1961 году КГБ, чудом сохранён, тайно вывезен на микрофильме и впервые опубликован только в 1980 году в Швейцарии, в Лозанне (под редакцией Шимона Маркиша и Ефима Эткинда). Его показания о нацистских лагерях смерти, написанные после освобождения Треблинки, являются одним из самых ранних письменных документов о Холокосте среди евреев и были использованы в качестве доказательств на Нюрнбергском процессе. ---------- Vasily Semenovich Grossman (real name: Iosif Solomonovich Grossman; November 29 (December 12), 1905, Berdichev – September 14, 1964, Moscow) was a Russian Soviet writer and journalist, war correspondent, and lieutenant colonel in the quartermaster service. He was born to a Jewish family in Ukraine, which was then part of the Russian Empire. His main work, the novel Life and Fate, was confiscated in 1961 by the KGB, miraculously preserved, secretly exported on microfilm, and first published only in 1980 in Lausanne, Switzerland (edited by Shimon Markish and Yefim Etkind). His testimony about the Nazi death camps, written after the liberation of Treblinka, is one of the earliest written documents about the Holocaust among Jews and was used as evidence at the Nuremberg Trials.