Cursed and Killed
12 hrs. 15 min.
Language
Russian
Author
Viktor Astafyev
Author
Viktor Astafyev
Narrator
Konstantin Smirnov
Narrator
Konstantin Smirnov
Description
Victor Petrovich Astafyev performed his second soldier’s feat when, once again without hiding from terrible memories, he went through the entire Great Patriotic War within the pages of his novel. That is how researchers of Astafyev’s work see it.
This book is not only an impeccable historical source about war; as the historian, Archpriest Georgy Mitrofanov puts it, it is a “truly Christian, deep and merciful view of a person—so characteristic of Russian literature.” The pages of the brutal and bloody novel by V. P. Astafyev “Cursed and Killed” (1992–1994), which critics consider the “last” novel about the Great Patriotic War, are read by Archpriest Konstantin Smirnov. His warm baritone, with a calm—and one might say majestic—intonation, reveals the mercy and compassion that the author concealed in the subtext.
Archpriest Georgy Mitrofanov shares his impressions of Astafyev’s novel—unexpected, profound—considering existence at war to be a universal catastrophe. With this novel, Astafyev brought to an end his reflections on war as a “crime against reason.” These materials are complemented by poems about the war by the great classics of the 20th century—A. Tvardovsky, A. Akhmatova, and others…
This book is not only an impeccable historical source about war; as the historian, Archpriest Georgy Mitrofanov puts it, it is a “truly Christian, deep and merciful view of a person—so characteristic of Russian literature.” The pages of the brutal and bloody novel by V. P. Astafyev “Cursed and Killed” (1992–1994), which critics consider the “last” novel about the Great Patriotic War, are read by Archpriest Konstantin Smirnov. His warm baritone, with a calm—and one might say majestic—intonation, reveals the mercy and compassion that the author concealed in the subtext.
Archpriest Georgy Mitrofanov shares his impressions of Astafyev’s novel—unexpected, profound—considering existence at war to be a universal catastrophe. With this novel, Astafyev brought to an end his reflections on war as a “crime against reason.” These materials are complemented by poems about the war by the great classics of the 20th century—A. Tvardovsky, A. Akhmatova, and others…
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