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The Road, by Vasily Grossman, is a collection of short stories written by one of the most celebrated Russian authors of the 20th century. Grossman was a journalist embedded with the Red Army during World War II, who later became something of a Soviet dissident and whose master work, Life and Fate, examined the harsh repression of Soviet Communism through the prism of the siege of Stalingrad.

Some of the stories simply touch upon the simplicity of Russian life in the first half of the 20th century, while others deal with the mindless stupidity and soul grinding nature of the Soviet bureaucracy. Some, however, written during the "Great War", have as their primary focus the nature of the German war machine and its actions as it subjugated the Polish, Ukrainian and Russian countryside prior to the Battle of Stalingrad.

In explaining the German hierarchy of oppression in one such Ukrainian village, one character in the short story, The Old Teacher, says:

"Well it seems to me that the sufferings of the Russians and Ukrainians are so great that the time has come to demonstrate that there is a fate still more awful, still more terrible. The Germans will say, `Don't grumble! Be happy and proud, be glad that you are not Jews! It's not a matter of elemental hatred. It's simple arithmetic- the simple arithmetic of brutality."

In The Hell of Treblinka, Grossman sets out the single best description and explanation for what happened in a Nazi concentration camp that I have ever encountered. He does so by providing examples, examples of what occurred to the hundreds of thousands of men, women and children condemned to an experience so utterly horrifying as to defy imagination. It is a simple matter to write and comprehend that "near a million people were transported to Treblinka, gassed and cremated". It is another to read:

"The SS singled out for particular torment those who had participated in the uprising in the Warsaw ghetto. The women and children were taken not to the gas chambers but to where the corpses were being burned. Mothers crazed with horror were forced to lead their children onto the red-hot grid where thousands of dead bodies were writhing in the flames and smoke, where corpses tossed and turned as if they had come back to life again, where the bellies of women who had been pregnant burst from the heat and babies killed before birth were burned in open wombs.... The children clung to their mothers and shrieked, `Mama, what are they going to do to us? Are they going to burn us?' Not even Dante, in his Hell, saw scenes like this."

Having read Life and Fate, dispatches from Grossman's time as a Soviet War correspondent and The Road, I can place Vasily Grossman in the pantheon of the greatest writers of the 20th century, if not ever.


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The Road Stories Journalism and Essays New York Review Books Classics Vasily Grossman Robert Chandler Elizabeth Chandler Olga Mukovnikova Books Reviews

A truly essential 300+ page collection (plus nearly another 100 pages of appendix, notes, bibliography, etc.) of various writings by the masterful Russian author Vasily Grossman (author of the masterpiece Life And Fate, a novel based on Grossman's own experiences in the USSR which was smuggled out of the Soviet Union and eventually published to worldwide acclaim). "The Road" is exactly as described in the subtitle a collection of stories, journalism, and essays. Some of these pieces are quite renowned and famous such as "The Hell Of Treblinka", one of the first accounts of the infamous Nazi death-camp. Consisting of 5 parts the book contains Part One The 1930's, featuring three selections most notably "In The Town of Berdichev" one of Grossman's earliest successes and reckonings with the realities of war. Part Two The War, The Shoah contains both biographically-based fiction as well as journalistic pieces such as "The Hell Of Treblinka". Part Three Later Stories includes 6 stories including the extraordinary "Mama" (dealing with the life of an adopted girl during Stalin's purges in the 1930's) as well as the bleak and horrifying story "The Road". Part Four Three Letters consists of Grossman's writings to his deceased mother (killed by Nazi forces). These letters are harrowing, extremely personal, and beautiful though tragic examples of Grossman's inner-strength, vulnerability, feelings of guilt, and will. All personality traits which allowed him to produce writing of the quality of a novel such as Life And Fate. Part 5 Eternal Rest contains appendixes, afterwords, chronology, notes, etc., which round this magnificent collection off nearly perfectly. For those who love Life And Fate or Everything Flows this collection is an essential collection. It contains much very rare material translated with the highest degree of scholarship and contains some of Grossman's most intimate and powerful writing. It also serves as a unintended "supplement" at times to Life And Fate, allowing readers who love that work further insight into its authors life, mind, and style. While some of the material contained within this collection is available elsewhere, much is not, making The Road an essential addition to any Grossman collection. As a collection, editor Robert Chandler has created an extremely powerful work which in many ways stands on its own as one of the finest windows in Grossman's personal world and that of all humans. A truly magnificent anthology of one of the 20th Century's greatest writers.
The Road, by Vasily Grossman, is a collection of short stories written by one of the most celebrated Russian authors of the 20th century. Grossman was a journalist embedded with the Red Army during World War II, who later became something of a Soviet dissident and whose master work, Life and Fate, examined the harsh repression of Soviet Communism through the prism of the siege of Stalingrad.

Some of the stories simply touch upon the simplicity of Russian life in the first half of the 20th century, while others deal with the mindless stupidity and soul grinding nature of the Soviet bureaucracy. Some, however, written during the "Great War", have as their primary focus the nature of the German war machine and its actions as it subjugated the Polish, Ukrainian and Russian countryside prior to the Battle of Stalingrad.

In explaining the German hierarchy of oppression in one such Ukrainian village, one character in the short story, The Old Teacher, says

"Well it seems to me that the sufferings of the Russians and Ukrainians are so great that the time has come to demonstrate that there is a fate still more awful, still more terrible. The Germans will say, `Don't grumble! Be happy and proud, be glad that you are not Jews! It's not a matter of elemental hatred. It's simple arithmetic- the simple arithmetic of brutality."

In The Hell of Treblinka, Grossman sets out the single best description and explanation for what happened in a Nazi concentration camp that I have ever encountered. He does so by providing examples, examples of what occurred to the hundreds of thousands of men, women and children condemned to an experience so utterly horrifying as to defy imagination. It is a simple matter to write and comprehend that "near a million people were transported to Treblinka, gassed and cremated". It is another to read

"The SS singled out for particular torment those who had participated in the uprising in the Warsaw ghetto. The women and children were taken not to the gas chambers but to where the corpses were being burned. Mothers crazed with horror were forced to lead their children onto the red-hot grid where thousands of dead bodies were writhing in the flames and smoke, where corpses tossed and turned as if they had come back to life again, where the bellies of women who had been pregnant burst from the heat and babies killed before birth were burned in open wombs.... The children clung to their mothers and shrieked, `Mama, what are they going to do to us? Are they going to burn us?' Not even Dante, in his Hell, saw scenes like this."

Having read Life and Fate, dispatches from Grossman's time as a Soviet War correspondent and The Road, I can place Vasily Grossman in the pantheon of the greatest writers of the 20th century, if not ever.