Thus began the painful peregrinations of ”Life and Fate,” which culminated in the publication of its original Russian text by a Swiss publisher a full 20 years after Grossman first submitted ...

My review of Lev Dodin’s staging of “Life and Fate” was in yesterday’s paper, but I wanted to come back to this show and especially its source material, Vasily Grossman&#821… ...

Vasily Grossman's Life and Fate created a portrait of the Soviets in WW2 that revealed "the grand sweep of history alongside the granular detail within", writes Nicholas Barrett.

My translation of Vasily Grossman’s Life and Fate was first published in 1985.. Back then, the novel — the Russian text of which was first published in Switzerland in 1980, some two decades ...

Consciously Tolstoy-like in its sweep, Life and Fate was also inspired by that great Russian observer of everyday life and “ordinary people,” Anton Chekhov, who was Grossman’s favorite writer. In a ...

Grossman died in 1964, never knowing that his book would be smuggled to the West and eventually published in 1980. In the first instalment, Life And Fate: Viktor And Lyuda, ...

Grossman was both a heroic war journalist and post-war heretic feared by the state. In 1961 the KGB came not to arrest writer Vasily Grossman but his masterwork, Life and Fate.

In September, “Life and Fate,” with Kenneth Branagh playing the atomic scientist Viktor Shtrum, took over Radio 4 for a week, and the book became a best-seller in England.

In “The Last Letter,” derived from Vasily Grossman’s “Life and Fate,” Catherine Samie brings to life the words of a female Russian Jewish doctor writing to her son as her Ukrainian ...

Political ideas that emphasise group identity, rather than individual rights, are back in fashion — as both the nationalist right and the progressive left slide towards identity politics.