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“Vasily Grossman is the Tolstoy of the USSR.” —Martin Amis   “…it is only a matter of time before Grossman is acknowledged as one of the great writers of the 20th century.” —The Guardian  “Charming. Grossman digresses as nimbly about the master craftsmen of Russian stoves found in the homes of the high-mountain villagers as he does about the touching customs of a rustic wedding he attended. Living among the Armenians, he witnessed a kind of timeless biblical nobility he conveys with artless simplicity in his own work.” —Kirkus Reviews “Like history, human nature is open-ended; people are capable of doing evil as much as good…[Vasily Grossman] the writer sought to probe the historical fabric and future potential of his society. Perhaps it's because of this stance that his work is finding its way back into print…” —The Nation   “Vasily Grossman’s writing sneaks up on you, its simplicity building to powerful impressions as he records the small things that occur in people's lives as they experience - or endure - larger events.” —The Jewish Chronicle

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About the Author

Vasily Semyonovich Grossman was born on December 12, 1905, in Berdichev, a Ukrainian town that was home to one of Europe’s largest Jewish communities. In 1934 he published both “In the Town of Berdichev”—a short story that won the admiration of such diverse writers as Maksim Gorky, Mikhail Bulgakov, and Isaak Babel—and a novel, Glyukauf, about the life of the Donbass miners. During the Second World War, Grossman worked as a reporter for the army newspaper Red Star, covering nearly all of the most important battles from the defense of Moscow to the fall of Berlin. His vivid yet sober “The Hell of Treblinka” (late 1944), one of the first articles in any language about a Nazi death camp, was translated and used as testimony in the Nuremberg trials. His novel For a Just Cause (originally titled Stalingrad) was published to great acclaim in 1952 and then fiercely attacked. A new wave of purges—directed against the Jews—was about to begin; but for Stalin’s death, in March 1953, Grossman would almost certainly have been arrested himself. During the next few years Grossman, while enjoying public success, worked on his two masterpieces, neither of which was to be published in Russia until the late 1980s: Life and Fate and Everything Flows. The KGB confiscated the manuscript of Life and Fate in February 1961. Grossman was able, however, to continue working on Everything Flows, a novel even more critical of Soviet society than Life and Fate, until his last days in the hospital. He died on September 14, 1964, on the eve of the twenty-third anniversary of the massacre of the Jews of Berdichev in which his mother had died.Robert Chandler is the author of Alexander Pushkin and the editor of two anthologies for Penguin Classics: Russian Short Stories from Pushkin to Buida and Russian Magic Tales fromPushkin to Platonov. His translations of Sappho and Guillaume Apollinaire are published in the Everyman’s Poetry series. His translations from Russian include Vasily Grossman’s Life and Fate, Everything Flows, and The Road (all published by NYRB Classics); Leskov’s Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk; and Aleksander Pushkin’s The Captain’s Daughter. Together with Olga Meerson and his wife, Elizabeth, he has translated a number of works by Andrey Platonov. One of these, Soul, won the 2004 AATSEEL (American Association of Teachers of Slavonic and East European Languages) Prize. His translation of Hamid Ismailov’s The Railway won the AATSEEL Prize for 2007 and received a special commendation from the judges of the 2007 Rossica Translation Prize.Elizabeth Chandler is a co-translator, with her husband, of Pushkin’s The Captain’s Daughter; of Vasily Grossman’s Everything Flows and The Road; and of several volumes of Andrey Platonov: The Return, The Portable Platonov, Happy Moscow, and Soul.Yury Bit-Yunan was born in Bryansk, in western Russia. He graduated from the Russian State University for the Humanities in Moscow, and completed his doctorate on the work of VasilyGrossman. At present he is lecturing on literary criticism at the Russian State University while continuing to research Grossman’s life and work.

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Series: New York Review Books Classics

Paperback: 160 pages

Publisher: NYRB Classics (February 19, 2013)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 1590176189

ISBN-13: 978-1590176184

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5 x 0.4 x 8 inches

Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)

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Vasily Grossman has written several of the very best books of our times but, sadly, this one is far wide of his standard of excellence. As a travel book, it is merely average, and his personal observations and philosophical meanderings add little. With each chapter, the author writes about some experience and then adds a lot of personal observation that is, in many cases, mundane. It's as if he felt he had to "pad" the chapters with "significance". Also, I don't think the author made Armenia come alive. My supplemental reading taught me that Armenia is an ancient and fascinating place. At least for me, that did not come across in this book. I hope readers will not start their Grossman journey with this meagre offering. Go right to his masterpieces "Life and Fate" and "Everything Flows". You will see there the true measure of this literary master craftsman who has yet to earn the widespread recognition he richly deserves. In my opinion, you can skip this book.

Vassily Grossman is relatively unknown in the West, but he's a major voice of Russian literature, continuing in his modernist fashion the humanistic ethos of Tolstoy and Chekov into the maelstrom of Stalinism and the Great Patriotic War (WWII). This sketchbook details a trip into the Southern USSR near the end of Grossman's life. The humor, observation, and powerful prose of this master come clear through the translation to give an insight into an intelligence worth knowing. Like the best travel books, Grossman's Armenian Sketchbook is a document of the human condition more than a tourist guide. The discovery here isn't just the Armenian people, landscape and culture, but of Grossman himself.

Only recently did Vasily Grossman emerge on my literary radar, no doubt in part due to the publication of his works by New York Review Books. AN ARMENIAN SKETCHBOOK was Grossman's last book, and it is the most recent one from NYRB. I chose it as my introduction to Grossman, possibly as an almost unconscious tribute to Armenian friends and acquaintances from my youth. It may have been an unfortunate choice; I sense that AN ARMENIAN SKETCHBOOK does not reflect Grossman at his best.The genesis of the book stems from the Soviet authorities' decision to suppress Grossman's "Life and Fate". To help replace the money he would have earned from that book, the powers that be tossed him a bone - to translate into Russian a long Armenian war novel. Grossman, however, only knew two words of Armenian. So, someone else was commissioned to work up a literal translation, which Grossman then, using considerable literary license, transformed into a Russian novel. To facilitate the translation and meet the author, Grossman was sent to Armenia for two months in late 1961. He then used the expedition as the basis for a book of his own. NYRB has chosen to entitle it "An Armenian Sketchbook"; a literal translation, however, would be "Good to You", from the Armenian greeting "Barez dzez" that Grossman encountered nearly everywhere.The book does resemble a sketchbook in its loose organization of impressions and vignettes, as opposed to a linear account of Grossman's trip to Armenia. The subjects that catch Grossman's attention and spark his meditations include the capital city of Yerezan, Lake Sevan, an Armenian wedding, the pagan foundations of Armenia's Christianity, and - especially - stone:"The first thing I saw in Armenia was stone; and what I took away when I left was a memory of stone. * * * There is no beginning or end to this stone. There it lies--flat and thick on the ground. There is no escape from it. It is as if countless stonecutters have been at work--thousands, tens of thousands, millions of stonecutters, working day and night for years on end, for centuries, for millennia. * * * The stonecutter was time. This stone is ancient; it has turned black and green from age. What shattered the mighty body of the basalt were the blows struck by long millennia. The mountains disintegrated; time turned out to be stronger than basalt massifs. And now all this no longer seems to be a vast quarry; it is the site of a battle fought between a great stone mountain and the vastness of time. Two monsters clashed on these fields; time was the victor. The mountains are dead, fallen in battle. * * * Time has triumphed; time is invincible."AN ARMENIAN SKETCHBOOK contains passages of literary merit, often more like poetry than prose. There are several extended metaphors that are both striking and insightful. There are some astute observations and some entertaining anecdotes. But there also is a lot of maundering. It certainly appears to be the book of an aging man (Grossman died two years after it was written), whose attention tends to wander. There are stretches in which Grossman natters on about seemingly anything and everything that crosses his mind. Further, I don't particularly care for the tone of the work, which too often borders on being flippant or supercilious (perhaps that is the fault of the translators). There are harangues against nationalism and paeans to brotherhood that, understandable as they may be in the circumstances of the time, come across as overly preachy.While the book can be recommended to those who care deeply about Armenia, my feeling is that it does not make for a good introduction to the work of Vasily Grossman.

A wonderful journey to Armenia by the words of this magnificent writer who will make us discover the beauty and the ugliness of human kind as a gender, while he makes a marvelous description to help us discover the uniqueness of an ancient culture.Life as a journey, human kindness as a major discovery.

I found Mr. Grossman's insights into his trip to Yerevan and the region interesting,old world and candid. Easy, sweet reading about a wonderful country that I want to visit. This is where my ancestors came from. Poetically written.

This book will make you want to pack your bags. Reading it is like being there and viewing things through the eyes of one who brings vibrancy to interactions with a place, its people, and one's self.

Beautifully and honestly observed, the land and the people come alive in this extraordinary narrative of a journey undergone as a final punishment for the crime of honesty. This book made me cry and laugh and understand my Armenian friends in a new way.

Brilliant observer and writer. Devastating times.

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