Описание книги
About the product Astafiev worked on the epic novel «Cursed and Killed» for a long time — from 1990 to 1994 — and never wrote the planned last, third book, but this did not prevent the work from becoming one of the most powerful and piercing examples of Russian «military» prose … The very name of the novel, which comes from the writings of the Russian Old Believers, is unusual: «All who sow confusion, wars and fratricide on earth will be cursed and killed by God.» revolution and abandonment of faith; extreme realism in the descriptions of a soldier’s life; surprisingly sincere and popular patriotism, combined with an equally deep and popular rejection of the «soviet». There was nothing of the kind in Russian «military» prose, either before or after Astafiev’s amazing epic. …
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