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September 19, 2011
"Life and Fate"
Life and Fate (Жизнь и судьба), by Vasily Grossman has been called the greatest Russian novel of the 20th century. Grossman has been compared Tolstoy. Set amid the Battle of Stalingrad, it was, of course, banned in the Soviet Union. A microfilm copy was smuggled out in 1974, but it was not published in the West until 1980.
Now, the BBC is making the book available in 13 episodes broadcast from September 18 to 25. MP3s are available via all the usual methods.
Kenneth Branagh and David Tennant star in an eight-hour dramatisation of Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman. Thirteen episodes will be broadcast from 18 to 25 September on Radio 4. This epic masterpiece, centred around the bloody battle of Stalingrad, charts the fate of both a nation and a family in the turmoil of war. Completed in 1960, the novel was deemed so dangerous by the KGB that the book itself was arrested.
Filed under Books | permalink | September 19, 2011 at 07:58 PM
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