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Vasily Grossman

Born

in Berdychiv, Russian Empire

December 12, 1905

Died

September 14, 1964

Genre

Historical Fiction, Fiction, War & Non Fiction

Influences

Leo Tolstoy, Anton Chekhov ...more

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Born Iosif Solomonovich Grossman into an emancipated Jewish family, he did not receive a traditional Jewish education. A Russian nanny turned his name Yossya into Russian Vasya (a diminutive of Vasily), which was accepted by the whole family. His father had social-democratic convictions and joined the Mensheviks. Young Vasily Grossman idealistically supported the Russian Revolution of 1917.

When the Great Patriotic War broke out in 1941, Grossman's mother was trapped in Berdychiv by the invading German army, and eventually murdered together with 20,000 to 30,000 other Jews who did not evacuate Berdychiv. Grossman was exempt from military service, but volunteered for the front, where he spent more than 1,000 days. He became a war reporter for ...more

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Average rating: 4.34 · 31,279 ratings · 3,701 reviews · 57 distinct works • Similar authors

	Life and Fate 4.46 avg rating — 15,035 ratings — published 1960 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Everything Flows by Vasily Grossman, Robert Chandler (Goodreads Author) (Translator), Elizabeth Chandler (Translator) 4.21 avg rating — 4,364 ratings — published 1972 — 84 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Stalingrad by Vasily Grossman, Robert Chandler (Goodreads Author) (Translator), Elizabeth Chandler (Translator) 4.29 avg rating — 3,626 ratings — published 1952 — 59 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Writer at War: Vasily Grossman with the Red Army by Vasily Grossman, Luba Vinogradova (Translator), Antony Beevor (Editor) 4.19 avg rating — 3,647 ratings — published 2005 — 57 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	L'inferno di Treblinka by Vasily Grossman, Claudia Zonghetti (Translator) 4.48 avg rating — 1,338 ratings — published 1944 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	An Armenian Sketchbook by Vasily Grossman, Robert Chandler (Goodreads Author) (Translator), Elizabeth Chandler (Translator) 4.05 avg rating — 1,218 ratings — published 1965 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Road: Stories, Journalism, and Essays by Vasily Grossman, Robert Chandler (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Elizabeth Chandler (Translator) 4.25 avg rating — 810 ratings — published 1987 — 27 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The People Immortal by Vasily Grossman, Julia Volohova (Afterword), Robert Chandler (Goodreads Author) (Introduction) 4.06 avg rating — 627 ratings — published 1942 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Complete Black Book of Russian Jewry 4.49 avg rating — 128 ratings — published 1946 — 33 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ucraina senza ebrei by Vasily Grossman, Claudia Zonghetti (Translator) 4.27 avg rating — 81 ratings — published 1943 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Stalingrad Trilogy (3 books)
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Живот и судбина (2 books)
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Quotes by Vasily Grossman (?)

“Good men and bad men alike are capable of weakness. The difference is simply that a bad man will be proud all his life of one good deed - while an honest man is hardly aware of his good acts, but remembers a single sin for years on end.”
― Vasily Grossman, Life and Fate

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“I have seen that it is not man who is impotent in the struggle against evil, but the power of evil that is impotent in the struggle against man. The powerlessness of kindness, of senseless kindness, is the secret of its immortality. It can never by conquered. The more stupid, the more senseless, the more helpless it may seem, the vaster it is. Evil is impotent before it. The prophets, religious teachers, reformers, social and political leaders are impotent before it. This dumb, blind love is man’s meaning. Human history is not the battle of good struggling to overcome evil. It is a battle fought by a great evil, struggling to crush a small kernel of human kindness. But if what is human in human beings has not been destroyed even now, then evil will never conquer.”
― Vasily Grossman, Life and Fate

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“And the greatest tragedy of our age is we don't listen to our consciences. We don't say what we think. We feel one thing and do another.”
― Vasily Grossman, Life and Fate

tags: concience-life, politics

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4th Quarter 2019 Long Read Poll

David Copperfield by Charles Dickens, 882 pages, 1849

120 votes, 38.7%

The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri, 798 pages, 1320

72 votes, 23.2%

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne 735 pages, 1767

45 votes, 14.5%

Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon, 776 pages, 1973

28 votes, 9.0%

Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman, 880 pages, 1980

23 votes, 7.4%

The Winds of War by Herman Wouk, 896 pages, 1971

22 votes, 7.1%

310 total votes

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