Good Day, Comrade Shtrum
John Lanchester: Vasily Grossman’s Masterpiece, 18 October 2007
Life and Fate
by Vasily Grossman, translated by Robert Chandler.
Vintage, 864 pp., £9.99, October 2006,0 09 950616 5 Show More
by Vasily Grossman, translated by Robert Chandler.
Vintage, 864 pp., £9.99, October 2006,
“... but, it seems increasingly clear, the most important critical work of the last twenty years – Fredric Jameson observes that ‘the disappearance of the individual subject, along with its formal consequence, the increasing unavailability of the personal style, engender the well-nigh universal practice today of what may be called pastiche.’ This ... ”