Vasily Semyonovich Grossman (Book order)

Vasily Semyonovich Grossman Book order

Vasily Grossman was a Russian writer and war correspondent whose work deeply explores themes of war, humanity, and totalitarian regimes. His realistic and unflinching style exposes the horrors of conflict while examining the resilience of the human spirit in the face of atrocity. Through his powerful narratives, Grossman conveys an authentic wartime experience and the moral complexities that arise within such periods. His literary legacy lies in his unwavering testimony to suffering and his search for meaning amidst the darkest chapters of human history.

Forever Flowing

256 pages
9 hours of reading

4.3(1177)Add rating

'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 BeevorIvan 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