In the trenches of Stalingrad: Victor Nekrasov

“In the trenches of Stalingrad” is the most famous book of Viktor Platonovich Nekrasov, a prose writer, which occupies a special place in the history of Russian literature. The heir to the ancient noble family, “soldier, musketeer, gueling”, according to Andrei Sinyavsky, “free onlookers and a cheerful blasphemy”, in which “Pushkin’s breath” was heard, he made a truly aristocratic career – defended his homeland and wrote books. A small story, published in 1946 and telling about the defense of Stalingrad, became a real superbesseller who brought international fame to the author. Almost for the first time, that unsightly truth about the war, which would later be called “trench”, sounded here. With a chopped phrase, it is simply and concisely told on these pages about front -line everyday life, that war is hard work, dirt, disorder, restless life. Nekrasov becomes a hero of the story, like Leo Tolstoy, the people, who worked for his own business and achieved victory … In 1974, Nekrasov, the laureate of the Stalin Pre …

Author
Nekrasov Victor Platonovich
Publisher
Folio, 2013
Series
School Library Ukr. And abroad. liters
Genre
Classical domestic prose