GROSSMAN VASILY (1905-1964) Zhizn’ i sud’ba: Roman. [Life and Fate: A Novel.] Edited by S. Markish and E. Etkind; introductory article by E. Etkind. Lausanne: L'Age D'Homme, 1980. First edition.

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– 608 p.; 21 x1 4 cm In the publisher's paperback cover. Good condition. Minor stains and scuffs on the cover, creases on the corners of the front cover and first pages. The manuscript of the novel Life and Fate, which is sharply anti-Stalinist in nature and on which the writer had been working since 1950, was submitted by the author for publication to the editorial office of the magazine Znamya. In early 1961, all copies of the manuscript were confiscated by the KGB as a result of a search of the writer's home. A copy of the novel, preserved by the writer's friend, the poet Semyon Lipkin, was taken to the West in the mid-1970s, after the writer's death, with the help of A.D. Sakharov, B. Okudzhava, and V.N. Voinovich, and was first published in Switzerland in 1980.

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