Обелиск

by Vasil Bykov

В книгу включены три повести знаменитого писателя Василя Быкова, принесшие автору мировую известность. Повесть "Обелиск" - это дань памяти всем безвестным героям Великой Отечественной войны, отдавшим свои жизни ради Победы. Фильм "Минута молчания", снятый по этому произведению, с успехом обошел экраны не только нашей страны, но и Западной Европы. Жестокая реальность событий и одновременно безмерные любовь и сочувствие к героям - вот две основные отличительные черты всех произведений Василя Быкова.

Genres: Russia, Fiction

384 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1971

About the author

Vasil Bykov (Vasil Bykaŭ) was a Belarusian dissident and opposition politician, junior lieutenant, and author of novels and novellas about World War II. A significant figure in Soviet and Belarusian literature and civic thought, his work earned him endorsements for the Nobel Prize nomination from, among others, Nobel Prize laureates Joseph Brodsky and Czesław Miłosz.

Belarusian: Васіль Быкаў
Russian: Василь Быков

Reviews

[Pavel · Rating 5 out of 5]

Thought-provoking portrayal of life in soviet countryside set in ww2.
Author served in the war himself.

[Dmitry Demidov · Rating 3 out of 5]

Повесть понравилась чуть меньше, чем "Сотников".

[Aleś Karoza · Rating 3 out of 5]

Разважанні на тэму гераізму, акупацыі, і адукацыі падчас другой сусветнай. Савецкая эстэтыка мне зусім не блізкая, але тут хапае і агульначалавечых разважанняў.

[Anya · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is very difficult to read. The whole time while reading it, I have been worrying about Хведар. The guy was persecuted by the communistic USSR government during 1930-40s when rich people from the farms got their belongings taken away, so that the equality between everybody in the country would remain. His wife and daughter both died. And his only son works for the government and does terrible things to Hvedar's neighbors...It is about the search of what life is during difficult times and if it has a meaning at all