Silence or story?
Ivan is the protagonist of Grossman's novel Everything Flows, apparently modelled on his brother in law. This is an account...
Gladness and despair
A finely phrased evocation of the twin elements of human experience of time, every new morning or moment heralding good...
Like atoms of radium
A fine metaphor for dots of kindness shining through darkness; Grossman's hope for the future is largely vested in the...
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...
Torment-filled pupil
This doesn't refer to a struggling school child but rather the traumatic last moments of a horse in a war...
Plus ça change…
Although this was written in the context of distant history, our TV screens are awash with images of men being...
Hunger in the raw
This is one of the most graphic, disturbing descriptions of the effects of severe hunger I have seen, written by...
As dogs in summer
Desperate people, condemned to eternal infernal cruelties, are likened to dogs failing to fight off the tiny tormenting assaults of...
Accumulated silence
I found this idea interesting, that suffering comes to lodge in us from the first time we hesitate to speak. ...
Chain of consequences
Grossman's novel deals with a man who returns to 'normal' life after 30 years in the gulag. Here he shows...
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