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An Armenian Sketchbook

An Armenian Sketchbook( )
Author: Grossman, Vasily
Introduction by: Chandler, Robert
Bit-Yunan, Yury
Translator: Chandler, Robert
Chandler, Elizabeth
ISBN:978-1-59017-618-4
Publication Date:Feb 2013
Publisher:New York Review of Books, Incorporated, The
Imprint:NYRB Classics
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $16.95
Book Description:

An NYRB Classics Original Few writers had to confront as many of the last century's mass tragedies as Vasily Grossman, who wrote with terrifying clarity about the Shoah, the Battle of Stalingrad, and the Terror Famine in the Ukraine. An Armenian Sketchbook, however, shows us a very different Grossman, notable for his tenderness, warmth, and sense of fun.        After the  Soviet government confiscated--or, as Grossman...
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Book Details
Pages:160
Detailed Subjects: Travel / Asia / Southwest
Social Science / Customs & Traditions
Literary Criticism / Russian & Soviet
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):5.02 x 7.99 x 0.47 Inches
Book Weight:0.412 Pounds
Author Biography
Grossman, Vasily (Author)
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.

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