Vasilii Grossman, Vse techet [Everything Flows]

Robert Chandler (Queen Mary, University of London)

Ed. by Neil Cornwell, University of Bristol
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 2.2.2.00: Post-1917 Writing and Culture in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus, 1917-present.
Vol. editors: Neil Cornwell (University of Bristol), Roman Koropeckyj (University of California, Los Angeles), Andrei Rogatchevski (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1970

Places

Ukraine (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Novel

Resources

Grossman is not only one of the great war novelists of all time, but also one of the first and most important of witnesses to the Shoah. “Treblinskii ad” [“The Hell of Treblinka”, September 1944], one of the first articles in any language about a Nazi death camp, was used as testimony in the Nuremberg trials. And there may be no more powerful lament for East European Jewry than the chapter of Zhizn' i sud'ba [Life and Fate] that has become known as “the Last Letter” – the letter that Anna Semyonovna, a fictional portrait of Grossman's own mother – writes in the last days of her life and manages to have smuggled out of the Jewish ghetto of a Ukrainian town under Nazi occupation. …

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Citation: Chandler, Robert. "Vse techet". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 22 June 2009 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=21500, accessed 21 November 2024.]

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