Vasily Grossman: life and destiny

Once a young chemist decided to leave his earthly profession and devote his life to literature. Also began to write. He started with the Civil War, reached the Battle of Stalingrad. But the novel about the great victory on the Volga was read only in the dungeons of the Lubyanka. Vasily Grossman is a writer, journalist, military correspondent. The book of his whole life was published only fifteen years after his death.

The war in the life of Grossman

Since the war began, only about her wrote Vasily Grossman. His biography begins from his childhood in a small town in Vinnytsia region, where a boy from an intelligent Jewish family was called for convenience not Joseph, but Vasya. This name was fixed to him and became part of the literary pseudonym.

From a young age he liked to write. Working in the Donbass, he composed notes for a local newspaper. The first samples of the pen were dedicated to the inhabitants of the mining community. The future author of the epic novel "Life and Fate" was twenty-three years old when he finally decided to link his life with writing. And three years later the Great Patriotic War began, and Vasily Grossman witnessed the most terrible events in the history of mankind. Until the last days of his life he lived by these events and reflected them in his books.

Dedication of mother

Fire, impassability, dust trenches and the blood of the wounded - this Grossman knew firsthand. Military correspondent, he went through the war from beginning to end. He wrote essays, military field stories and did not shy away from the front line. And somewhere far away, in the Jewish ghetto, his mother died. Like the character he created, Vasily Grossman wrote his mother letters when she was no longer alive.

In the novel, the fates of different people are intertwined. Each of them is tragic in its own way. Some perish at the hands of the SS gunmen, others - on the battlefield. But there are still others. Their death comes with the death of loved ones. The wife of Shtrum after the death of his son walks, breathes and speaks, but he realizes that she is not around. And he can not do anything because he has his own pain. The pain of losing the mother becomes not the main motive in the work, but it was she who dedicated the book to Vasily Grossman.

The house "six fraction one"

The house on Penza Street became the center of the narrative in the novel "Life and Fate". The symbol of the heroism of the Russian soldier went down in history as a building, the capture of which killed German soldiers more than in the occupation of Paris. The legendary house Pavlova Grossman reflects in his book. But the author pays attention not only to the heroism and courage of his characters, but also to happiness, simple, human. Fortunately, which can arise even in the Stalingrad ruins, in the last moments of life.

Life and fate after the war

It was the military theme in the post-war years that Vasily Grossman devoted his work to. Reviews of these works by Soviet critics were negative. Committeeers saw in the books anti-Soviet overtones. When the author of the novel "Life and Fate" died, he was not yet sixty. Perhaps he would live longer if he could publish a novel in which he put his whole soul.

In his main work, Grossman did not avoid the camp topic, where prisoners were political "criminals". Unjust arrests and brutal interrogations were made by state security officers even when the enemy was on the outskirts of Moscow. And most importantly - the book contains an invisible parallel between Stalin and Hitler.

Later such frank criticism in the artistic form was not forgiven to Grossman. The manuscript was confiscated. And only in 1980, in some unprecedented way, it got abroad, where it was published.

"Treblin hell"

Vasily Grossman lived 19 years after the end of the war. All works of this period were echoes of what was lived and seen in the forties. In the story "Treblinsky hell", the author tries to find an answer to the questions about why Himmler ordered in 1943 so hastily to destroy more than eight hundred prisoners of the "death camp". Such an inexplicable cruelty did not succumb to any logic. Even the logic of the Reichsfuehrer SS. The author of the novel assumed that these actions became a reaction to the victory of the Red Army in Stalingrad. Apparently, at the top began to think about the imminent consequences and the impending punishment. It was necessary to destroy the traces of crimes.

Vasily Grossman died in Moscow in 1965. At home, the main work of his life was published in 1988. Late. But much earlier than M.Suslov predicted this event. The Soviet ideologist, hearing about the plot, said: "Such a book can be printed in two hundred years, not earlier."