An Armenian sketchbook
Grossman, Vasiliĭ2013
Book
Few writers had to confront so many of the last century's mass tragedies as Vasily Grossman. He is likely to be remembered, above all, for the terrifying clarity with which he writes about the Shoah, the Battle of Stalingrad and the Terror Famine in the Ukraine. An Armenian Sketchbook, however, shows us a very different Grossman; it is notable for its warmth, its sense of fun and for the benign humility that is always to be found in his writing. After the 'arrest' - as Grossman always put it - of Life and Fate, Grossman took on the task of editing a literal Russian translation of a lengthy Armenian novel. The novel was of little interest to him, but he was glad of an excuse to travel to Armenia. This is his account of the two months he spent there. It is by far the most personal and intimate of Grossman's works, with an air of absolute spontaneity, as though Grossman is simply chatting to the reader about his impressions of Armenia, its mountains, its ancient churches and its people.
Main title:
An Armenian sketchbook / Vasily Grossman ; with an introduction and appendices by Robert Chandler and Yury Bit-Yunan ; translated from the Russian by Robert and Elizabeth Chandler.
Work:
Imprint:
London : MacLehose Press, 2013, c2013.London : MacLehose Press, 2013.©2013.
Collation:
221 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Notes:
First published in the Russian language as Dobro vam in Vasily Grossman, Sobranie sochinenii v 4-kh tomakh by Agraf, Moscow, 1998.Includes bibliographical references.Translated from the Russian.
Contents:
An Armenian Sketchbook -- Appendices -- "Vasily Grossman and Hrachya Kochar" / Yury Bit-Yunan.
ISBN:
9780857052353
Dewey class:
914.7560485947.5608
Language:
EnglishRussian
Subject:
BRN:
78370
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| City Library | -History | HISTORY 947.5608 GROS | Available |