One day it will happen
Not only did I like this simile for peace, it also seems apt to feature it following VE Day, which...
Silence or story?
Ivan is the protagonist of Grossman's novel Everything Flows, apparently modelled on his brother in law. This is an account...
Chain of consequences
Grossman's novel deals with a man who returns to 'normal' life after 30 years in the gulag. Here he shows...
The yearning for freedom
As far as I can see, from both history and 'current events', there's not much evidence to suggest that the...
For love of a letter
A letter carried, quite literally, close to the heart, despite the torment its presence provokes. Vasily Grossman's mother died in...
The past in the present
It happens that I started reading a Russian classic a few weeks ago, Goncharov's Oblomov, first published in 1859. Then...
How to read a book in a language you don’t know (II)
I love children's books and their illustrations, and often buy second-hand at this or that flea-market. By now, we have...
System in everything
A curious exchange between Anna Sergeyevna and Bazarov in Turgenev's Fathers and Sons. Somehow, Anna's crisp response chills the romance...
An English view of Russian
Although ignorant of Russian, I am interested in how cultures see other cultures, and languages see other languages, even if...
The translation of thinking
Steinbeck seeks to understand the difficulties his interpreters faced when supporting him on his trip to the Soviet Union with...
A fog of hostility
Following the death of his father when he was a small boy, Maxim Gorky (1868-1936) went with his mother to...
The apostle of freedom
Vasily Grossman sings freedom despite having lived in a time and place where it was desperately rare. Even one of...
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