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Cursed and killed

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Over the novel epic "Cursed and Murdered" Astafiev worked for a long time - from 1990 to 1994 - and never wrote the planned last, the third book, but this did not prevent the work to become one of the most powerful and poignant examples of Russian "military" prose. The very title of the novel, which came from the writings of the Russian Old Believers, is unusual: "All those who sow confusion, war and fratricide on earth will be cursed and killed by God. Equally unusual in this epic is everything - the idea of war as God's punishment, sent to the people for the horrors of the revolution and the abandonment of faith; extreme realism in the descriptions of the soldiers' everyday life; surprisingly sincere and popular patriotism, combined with an equally deep and popular rejection of the "Soviet". There was nothing like it in Russian "military" prose neither before nor after Astafiev's amazing epic.
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