by Vasilii Semenovich Grossman · Seix Barral. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788432205293
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«Vida y destino» is the epic novel by Vasili Grossman, published by Seix Barral in paperback (789 pages, in Spanish).
The novel follows the Shaposhnikov family in the Soviet Union during the Second World War, with the Battle of Stalingrad as a backdrop. Grossman interweaves everyday life under Stalinist terror, conditions at the front and in the rear, and the conflict between individual freedom and the oppression of totalitarian regimes.
Vasili Grossman finished «Vida y destino» in 1960, but the KGB confiscated the manuscript; the work was published in the West in 1980. Translation by Rosa M. Bassols. Biblioteca Breve collection.
It is aimed at readers of Russian and historical fiction about the Second World War, in the vein of War and Peace and Doctor Zhivago.
Vasily Semyonovich Grossman was a Soviet writer and journalist. Born to a Jewish family in Ukraine, then part of the Russian Empire, Grossman trained as a chemical engineer at Moscow State University, earning the nickname Vasya-khimik because of his diligence as a student. Upon graduation, he took a job in Stalino in the Donets Basin. In the 1930s he changed careers and began writing full-time, publishing a number of short stories and several novels.
