July 41. Novels, stories, short stories
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July 41. Novels, stories, short stories
19.99 €
Grigory Baklanov was a Soviet writer, screenwriter and publicist, a front-line soldier, one of the bright representatives of “lieutenant’s prose”, among whom were Viktor Astafyev, Yuri Bondarev, Vasil Bykov, Boris Vasilyev, Viktor Nekrasov… In 1941, when Baklanov was 17, he volunteered for the front, participated in battles in Ukraine, Moldova, Romania and Hungary; the end of the war found him in Austria, with the rank of junior lieutenant. The reliable episodes of the war, reflected in Baklanov’s works, often ran counter to the ceremonial history, but carried the truth that the author wanted to tell about what he saw and experienced. “New generations cannot imagine what the so-called “lieutenant’s prose” was like in its time, in the late 50s – early 60s,” Baklanov recalled. — It was, first of all, their own view of the war, they wrote about what they themselves took from the battlefields, they made the truth public.” This edition includes the most famous works of Grigory Baklanov, written in different years, including the early war stories “South of the Main Attack” and “A Span of Land,” the novel “July 1941,” the stories “It Was the Month of May,” “And So the War Ended,” and “Nadya.”
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- All books by the publisher
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- All books in the series Russian Literature. Big Books