25/01/2008

Vasily Grossman

The Russian writer’s novel “Life and Fate”—often compared with “War and Peace”—was first published in English in the mid-1980s. But only now is interest taking off among a wider public.

Robert Chandler in Prospect
It is easy for a translator to exaggerate the importance of what he is working on. In the early 1980s, while I was [...]