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An Armenian Sketchbook

An Armenian Sketchbook

Grossman, Vasily
Chandler, Robert
Chandler, Robert

Paperback

Series: New York Review Books Classics

Travel WritingEastern EuropeRussian History

Publisher Price: $17.95

ISBN10: 1590176189
ISBN13: 9781590176184
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Published: Feb 19 2013
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.46 Width: 5.24 Depth: 8.03
Language: English
An NYRB Classics Original

Few 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, as 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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