Cursed and killed

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Astafiev worked on the epic novel “Cursed and Killed” for a long time - from 1990 to 1994 - and never wrote the planned last, third book, but this did not prevent the work from becoming one of the most powerful and poignant examples of Russian “military” prose. The very title of the novel, which came from the writings of Russian Old Believers, is unusual: “Everyone who sows unrest, wars and fratricide on earth will be cursed and killed by God.” Everything in this epic is just as unusual - the idea of ​​war as God's punishment sent to the people for the horrors of the revolution and the rejection of the faith; extreme realism in the descriptions of a soldier's 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 either before or after Astafiev's amazing epic.

Barcode: 9785171125745 SKU: 70418596 Category:
Publication language: Russian

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