View Vasily Grossman Life And Fate Images. Life and fate by vasily grossman on bbc radio 4. In 1941 he became a correspondent for the red army newspaper, red star, reporting on the defence of stalingrad in 1960 grossman completed his masterpiece life and fate and submitted it to an official literary journal.
In 1941 he became a correspondent for the red army newspaper, red star, reporting on the defence of stalingrad in 1960 grossman completed his masterpiece life and fate and submitted it to an official literary journal. An incomplete version of life and fate was released in the soviet union only during perestroika, in 1988. Life and fate is a 2012 russian television miniseries, lasting 12 episodes.
Vasily grossman was born on iz december 1905 in the ukrainian town of berdichev, the home of one of the largest jewish communities in eastern europe.
In the summer of 2003 i read vasily grossman's life and fate. Life and fate by vasily grossman on bbc radio 4. Listen online to life and fate and watch david tennant and kenneth branagh talk about their part in the radio dramatisation. Vasily grossman's novel is burnt in my memory, not only by its huge canvas, its meditation on tyranny, and its dazzling description of war, but also grossman lost his mother in a concentration camp.