The road : stories, journalism, and essays (New York Review Books classics)
by Grossman, Vasiliì† Semenovich.
Summary
Collects short stories, journalism, essays, and letters by the author of "Life and Fate," including the complete text of Grossman's report on the workings of the Treblinka death camp. Full description
Summary: |
Collects short stories, journalism, essays, and letters by the author of "Life and Fate," including the complete text of Grossman's report on the workings of the Treblinka death camp. |
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Physical Description: |
373 p. : port. ; 21 cm. |
Bibliography: |
Includes bibliographical references. |
ISBN: |
9781590173619 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1590173619 |
Author Notes: |
Grossman served as a war correspondent during World War II, publishing a series of sketches and stories about his experiences. Along with Ehrenburg, he edited the suppressed documentary volume on the fate of Soviet Jews, The Black Book. In 1952 the first part of his new novel, For the Good of the Cause, appeared and was sharply criticized for its depiction of the war. The censor rejected another novel, Forever Flowing (1955), which was circulated in samizdat and published in the West. The secret police confiscated a sequel to For the Good of the Cause, the novel Life and Fate, in 1961, but a copy was smuggled abroad and published in 1970. Grossman's books were issued in the Soviet Union in the late 1980s and have met with both admiration and, on part of the nationalist right wing, considerable hostility. (Bowker Author Biography) |