
An Armenian Sketchbook (New York Review Books Classics)
An NYRB Classics OriginalFew writers had to confront as many of the last century’s mass tragedies as Vasily Grossman, who wrote with terrifying clarity about the Shoah, the Battle of Stalingrad, and the Terror Famine in the Ukraine. An Armenian Sketchbook, however, shows us a very different Grossman, notable for his tenderness, warmth, and sense of fun.After the Soviet government confiscated—or, ...
Series: New York Review Books Classics
Paperback: 160 pages
Publisher: NYRB Classics (February 19, 2013)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1590176189
ISBN-13: 978-1590176184
Product Dimensions: 5 x 0.4 x 8 inches
Amazon Rank: 748470
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“Vasily Grossman has written several of the very best books of our times but, sadly, this one is far wide of his standard of excellence. As a travel book, it is merely average, and his personal observations and philosophical meanderings add little. W...”
s Grossman always put it, “arrested”—Life and Fate, he took on the task of revising a literal Russian translation of a long Armenian novel. The novel was of little interest to him, but he needed money and was evidently glad of an excuse to travel to Armenia. An Armenian Sketchbook is his account of the two months he spent there.This is by far the most personal and intimate of Grossman’s works, endowed with an air of absolute spontaneity, as though he is simply chatting to the reader about his impressions of Armenia—its mountains, its ancient churches, its people—while also examining his own thoughts and moods. A wonderfully human account of travel to a faraway place, An Armenian Sketchbook also has the vivid appeal of a self-portrait.
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