Live Until Dawn. Alpine Ballad
14.99 €
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Live Until Dawn. Alpine Ballad
14.99 €
"The author of the most poignant books about the war", "the most read Belarusian author in the whole world", "the last realistic writer of Europe" - all this is said about Vasil Bykov. Three days before the beginning of the Great Patriotic War Vasil Bykov was 17 years old. In 1942, yesterday's student of the Vitebsk Art College and extern of the Vitebsk school of factory and factory training was drafted to the front, where he participated in the battles for Krivoy Rog, Alexandria, Znamenka, passed through the territory of Romania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Austria, twice was wounded. In 1947, the first story of the young writer was published. Bykov's works marked in literature a new stage of comprehension of military events, combining the tragic concreteness of war, "trench truth", with the "eternal" problems of existence. How to preserve humanity in inhuman circumstances? What to save among the horrors of war - the body or the soul? For what does a man suffer, does he live only for himself? On these and other questions are looking for answers to the heroes of Vasil Bykov, an outstanding master of military prose of the twentieth century. The collection includes the famous stories "Alpine Ballad", "Sotnikov", "Obelisk", "To Live to Dawn", "His Battalion", "To Go and Not Return".
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