A book judged so dangerous in the Soviet Union that not only the manuscript but the ribbons on which it had been typed were confiscated by the state, Life and Fate is an epic tale of World War II and a profound reckoning with the dark forces that dominated the twentieth century.
Interweaving a transfixing account of the battle of Stalingrad with the story of a single middle...
A book judged so dangerous in the Soviet Union that not only the manuscript but the ribbons on which it had been typed were confiscated by the state, Life and Fate is an epic tale of World War II and a profound reckoning with the dark forces that dominated the twentieth century.
Interweaving a transfixing account of the battle of Stalingrad with the story of a single middle-class family, the Shaposhnikovs, scattered by fortune from Germany to Siberia, Vasily Grossman fashions an immense, intricately detailed tapestry depicting a time of almost unimaginable horror and even stranger hope.
Life and Fate juxtaposes bedrooms and snipers’ nests, scientific laboratories and the Gulag, taking us deep into the hearts and minds of characters ranging from a boy on his way to the gas chambers to Hitler and Stalin themselves.
This novel of unsparing realism and visionary moral intensity is one of the supreme achievements of modern Russian literature.
“whatever life holds in store – hard-won glory, poverty and despair, or death in a labour camp – they will live as human beings and die as human beings, the same as those who have already perished; an...“whatever life holds in store – hard-won glory, poverty and despair, or death in a labour camp – they will live as human beings and die as human beings, the same as those who have already perished; and in this alone lies man's eternal and bitter victory over all the grandiose and inhuman forces that ever have been or will be”(展开)
among a million Russian huts you will never find even two that are exactly the same,everything that lives is unique.it is unimaginable that two people ,or two Briar roses ,should be identical...if you...among a million Russian huts you will never find even two that are exactly the same,everything that lives is unique.it is unimaginable that two people ,or two Briar roses ,should be identical...if you attempt to erase the peculiarities and individuality of life by violence, then life itself must suffocate(展开)
2 有用 WSalomé 2019-01-13 17:22:38
“whatever life holds in store – hard-won glory, poverty and despair, or death in a labour camp – they will live as human beings and die as human beings, the same as those who have already perished; an... “whatever life holds in store – hard-won glory, poverty and despair, or death in a labour camp – they will live as human beings and die as human beings, the same as those who have already perished; and in this alone lies man's eternal and bitter victory over all the grandiose and inhuman forces that ever have been or will be” (展开)
2 有用 后现代宝宝 2022-10-27 02:32:26 山东
among a million Russian huts you will never find even two that are exactly the same,everything that lives is unique.it is unimaginable that two people ,or two Briar roses ,should be identical...if you... among a million Russian huts you will never find even two that are exactly the same,everything that lives is unique.it is unimaginable that two people ,or two Briar roses ,should be identical...if you attempt to erase the peculiarities and individuality of life by violence, then life itself must suffocate (展开)
2 有用 別有用心美少女 2020-08-18 04:30:08
又一本初中看的,都不記得內容了
2 有用 苏呜呜 2021-02-11 06:37:52
it doesn’t matter; it’s life.
1 有用 arale 2021-03-23 23:40:56
在一个民族命运的纪念碑下,个体的渺小和伟大,人性的卑微和崇高,在巨大无朋帝国疆土的各个角落,各个阶层,缓缓铺陈开来。