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by Vasilii Semenovich Grossman · Seix Barral. · tapa blanda · 789 pages
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Vida y destino es una novela épica de Vasili Grossman que narra la historia de una familia, los Shaposhnikov, en la Unión Soviética durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial. La trama se desarrolla en el contexto de la batalla de Stalingrado y explora temas como el terror estalinista, los horrores de la guerra y la vida cotidiana en la retaguardia. La novela examina la libertad individual frente a la coerción de los sistemas totalitarios y la consolidación de los métodos fascistas de antisemitismo y terror estatal bajo el régimen de Stalin. Es una obra comparable a Guerra y paz por su capacidad de abarcamiento y nitidez estilística, y recuerda a El doctor Zhivago por su humanidad y poder emotivo.

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.