Cursed and Killed
33 hrs. 16 min.
Language
Russian
Author
Viktor Astafyev
Author
Viktor Astafyev
Narrator
Pavel Lomakin
Narrator
Pavel Lomakin
Description
One of the strongest and most piercing examples of Russian “military” prose!
Astafyev worked on the epic novel “Cursed and Killed” for a long time—from 1990 to 1994—and still didn’t write the planned final, third book, yet that didn’t prevent the work from becoming one of the strongest and most piercing examples of Russian “military” prose.
Unusual even in the title itself, taken from the writings of Russian Old Believers: “All who sow unrest, war, and fratricide on earth will be cursed by God and killed.”
Just as unusual in this epic is everything—war conceived as God’s punishment sent to the people for the horrors of the Revolution and the renunciation of faith; extreme realism in describing soldiers’ everyday life; astonishingly sincere and folk patriotism, combined with an equally deep, popular rejection of “Sovietness.” Nothing like it existed in Russian “military” prose either before or after Astafyev’s remarkable epic.
Astafyev worked on the epic novel “Cursed and Killed” for a long time—from 1990 to 1994—and still didn’t write the planned final, third book, yet that didn’t prevent the work from becoming one of the strongest and most piercing examples of Russian “military” prose.
Unusual even in the title itself, taken from the writings of Russian Old Believers: “All who sow unrest, war, and fratricide on earth will be cursed by God and killed.”
Just as unusual in this epic is everything—war conceived as God’s punishment sent to the people for the horrors of the Revolution and the renunciation of faith; extreme realism in describing soldiers’ everyday life; astonishingly sincere and folk patriotism, combined with an equally deep, popular rejection of “Sovietness.” Nothing like it existed in Russian “military” prose either before or after Astafyev’s remarkable epic.
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