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Originally Posted by TomcatViP
Hey and what abt Constantin Simonov ? One of the greatest book on soldier at war I ever read. Stylish as an Hemingway. I understand that his past is somewhat controversial but outside Russia this has no impact - he is largely unknown. His saga is more easy to read than Vasily G
Grossman does too much of an emphasis some time making the text hard and boring to read on some paragraph (might be something lost in the translation thus) without mentioning the thousands of different characters found in his saga very much à la TolstoÏ .
We shld hve a thread abt books etc...  |
I agree about Simonov. The only issue is that his books were published during Soviet times and were censored. I do not know if there are any more complete post-soviet editions available.
Anyway his military poetry is outstanding and films based on his novels are worth watching, e.g.:
The Normandy - Neman (1960), joint production by the USSR and France; together with Charles Spaak and Elsa Triolet) - about Soviet-French fighter squadron
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normandie-Niemen
The Alive and the Dead (1964), directed by Aleksandr Stolper, starring Kirill Lavrov, Anatoli Papanov, Oleg Yefremov - about tragic 1941 retreat of the Red Army.