Ebook {Epub PDF} An Armenian Sketchbook by Vasily Grossman

 · An Armenian Sketchbook is his account of the two months he spent there. This is by far the most personal and intimate of Grossman’s works, endowed with an air of absolute spontaneity, as though he is simply chatting to the reader about his impressions of Armenia—its mountains, its ancient churches, its people—while also examining his own thoughts and bltadwin.ru: New York Review Books.  · An Armenian Sketchbook, by Vasily Grossman. A trip to Armenia proved to be the creative answer for a writer censored by the KGB, broke, and dying of cancerPages:  · Vasily Grossman traveled from Moscow to Armenia in to edit a long war novel. ‘An Armenian Sketchbook’ is arguably the novelist’s most personal bltadwin.ruted Reading Time: 6 mins.

An Armenian Sketchbook, however, shows us a very different Grossman, notable for his tenderness, warmth, and sense of fun. After the Soviet government confiscated—or, as Grossman always put it, "arrested"— Life and Fate, he took on the task of revising a literal Russian translation of a long Armenian novel. An Armenian Sketchbook, an account of a trip Vasily Grossman made to Armenia in the early s, translated by Robert Chandler and Elizabeth Chandler, was made one of the nominees for this year. by Professor Hovhanness I. Pilikian, London, 13 November Book Review. An Armenian Sketchbook by Vasily Grossman. You may not have heard of Vasily Grossman. This great modern, classical, not anti-Soviet writer, died at age 59, in , from. stomach cancer.

In this sprightly translation by the Chandler husband-and-wife team, who previously tackled Grossman’s Everything Flows and The Road, Grossman’s character sketches, executed with swift, loving strokes, provide simply charming reading. The author digresses as nimbly about the master craftsmen of Russian stoves found in the homes of the high-mountain villagers (“what quantities of bread, what a great deal of cabbage, how much living warmth his stoves have given birth to!”) as he does. Vasily Grossman traveled from Moscow to Armenia in to edit a long war novel. ‘An Armenian Sketchbook’ is arguably the novelist’s most personal work. In an Armenian Sketchbook, written by Vasily Grossman, the author details the two months he spent visiting Armenia. At moments, it seems like he is understanding and empathetic towards the Armenians he encounters.