Жизнь и судьба by Vasily Grossman
An expansive wartime novel follows a Soviet family caught between the Battle of Stalingrad and the repressive machinery of the Stalinist state, juxtaposing life at the front with life on the home front. Through overlapping portraits—a Jewish physicist struggling with conscience and scientific responsibility, soldiers and civilians facing siege and loss, and victims of bureaucracy and terror—the narrative examines how totalitarianism crushes individuality while ordinary people cling to compassion, memory, and moral choice. It combines gritty battlefield realism with philosophical reflections on history, freedom, and the human capacity for both cruelty and dignity.
- Published
- 1952
- Nationality
- Russian
- Length
- Unknown
- Pages
- 800-900 pages
- Original Language
- Russian
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- Alternate Titles
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- La vida y el destino
- La vie et le destin
- Leben und Schicksal
- Life and Fate
- Zhizn i sud'ba
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