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    • Tuesday, 16 August, 2022
      ReviewFiction
      The People Immortal by Vasily Grossman — Stalin’s shadow

      This new translation of the Russian-language novelist’s patriotic work hints at his future tests on the limits of Soviet censorship

      Pillars with the faces of German leaders, including Hitler and Goebbels, crumble
    • Friday, 25 March, 2022
      Soviet writer Vasily Grossman and the ‘ruthless truth’ of war

      The clear-eyed chronicler of the darkest days of 20th-century history is startlingly relevant for the war in Ukraine

    • Monday, 23 September, 2019
      Gideon Rachman
      Life, fate and the assault on liberalism

      Both the right and the left are in thrall to identity politics

    • Friday, 10 May, 2019
      ReviewBiography and memoir
      Vasily Grossman and the Soviet Century — poignant witness

      A stirring biography of one of the greatest chroniclers of the horrors of Nazism and Stalinism

      Vasily Grossman with the Red Army in Schwerin, Germany, 1945. (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)
    • Thursday, 10 May, 2018
      ReviewLife & Arts
      Life and Fate, Theatre Royal Haymarket, London — epic yet intimate

      Maly Drama Theatre of St Petersburg’s adaptation of Vasily Grossman’s sprawling novel is a remarkable achievement

      Tatiana Shestakova and Igor Ivanov 'in Life and Fate'
    • Thursday, 26 May, 2016
      Book awards
      Translators step into the literary spotlight after Man Booker win

      Rising sales of non-English fiction have boosted the profile of the writers’ art

      LONDON, ENGLAND - MAY 16: Han Kang (R), author of the winning book The Vegetarian, poses for photographers with translator Deborah Smith (L) at the Photocall for the Man Booker International Prize at The V&A on May 16, 2016 in London, England. (Photo by Jeff Spicer/Getty Images)
    • Friday, 27 June, 2014
      ReviewLife & Arts
      Stalingrad – DVD review

      A battle that changed the course of the second world war is reduced to video-game combat scenes

    • Friday, 5 July, 2013
      Life & Arts
      ‘Perfection is always simple’

      Vasily Grossman’s memoir on his stay in Armenia is the most personal of his works

    • Friday, 9 September, 2011
      ReviewLife & Arts
      The Road

      An excellent introduction to Vasily Grossman’s hauntingly powerful fiction and reportage

    • Saturday, 2 February, 2008
      Life & Arts
      Small Talk: Linda Grant
    • Thursday, 8 February, 2007
      Life & Arts
      Life and Fate, Théâtre MC93 Bobigny, Paris
    • Friday, 26 August, 2005
      ReviewBooks
      The ruthless truth
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