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The road stories, journalism, and essays

Collects short stories, journalism, essays, and letters by the author of "Life and Fate," including the complete text of Grossman's report on the workings of the Treblinka death camp.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Grossman, Vasiliĭ Semenovich
Other Authors:	Chandler, Robert, 1953-, Chandler, Elizabeth, 1947-, Mukovnikova, Olga, Bit-Yunan, Yury
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English Russian
Published:	New York : New York Review Books, 2010.
Series:	New York Review Books classics
Subjects:	Russian literature > Translations into English.
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Summary:	Collects short stories, journalism, essays, and letters by the author of "Life and Fate," including the complete text of Grossman's report on the workings of the Treblinka death camp.
Physical Description:	373 p. : port. ; 21 cm.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:	9781590173619 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1590173619
Author Notes:	Grossman, a graduate in physics and mathematics from Moscow University, worked first as a chemical engineer and became a published writer during the mid-1930s. His early stories and novel deal with such politically orthodox themes as the struggle against the tsarist regime, the civil war, and the building of the new society. Grossman served as a war correspondent during World War II, publishing a series of sketches and stories about his experiences. Along with Ehrenburg, he edited the suppressed documentary volume on the fate of Soviet Jews, The Black Book. In 1952 the first part of his new novel, For the Good of the Cause, appeared and was sharply criticized for its depiction of the war. The censor rejected another novel, Forever Flowing (1955), which was circulated in samizdat and published in the West. The secret police confiscated a sequel to For the Good of the Cause, the novel Life and Fate, in 1961, but a copy was smuggled abroad and published in 1970. Grossman's books were issued in the Soviet Union in the late 1980s and have met with both admiration and, on part of the nationalist right wing, considerable hostility. (Bowker Author Biography)