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Life and Fate
by Vasily Grossman
“... in 1961 , after the manuscripts of Life and Fate had been confiscated, Grossman would write to Khrushchev ,
I have written in my book
what I believed, and continue
to believe, to be the truth.
I have written only what
I have thought through,
felt through, and suffered
through.
...we have no more complete picture of Stalinist Russia.” —Robert Chandler
“And in this silence of the dumb and these speeches of the blind, in this medley of people bound together by the same grief, terror and hope, in this hatred and lack of understanding between men who spoke the same tongue, you could see much of the tragedy of the twentieth century.”
“It was as though she were affirming that no power in the world could stop people from being people, that even the most powerful state was unable to intrude...”
There’s nothing more I might possibly add that would even begin to do justice to this volume.
I have written in my book
what I believed, and continue
to believe, to be the truth.
I have written only what
I have thought through,
felt through, and suffered
through.
...we have no more complete picture of Stalinist Russia.” —Robert Chandler
“And in this silence of the dumb and these speeches of the blind, in this medley of people bound together by the same grief, terror and hope, in this hatred and lack of understanding between men who spoke the same tongue, you could see much of the tragedy of the twentieth century.”
“It was as though she were affirming that no power in the world could stop people from being people, that even the most powerful state was unable to intrude...”
There’s nothing more I might possibly add that would even begin to do justice to this volume.