Live and Remember

8 hrs. 4 min.

Classics

Language Russian

Author Valentin Rasputin

Narrator Yury Belyk

Description

Valentin Rasputin’s name is widely known both in Russia and beyond its borders—his books have been translated into many languages. In his work, he reflected one of the most acute problems of the late 20th century: the destruction of nature and morality under the influence of civilization. The writer asks questions about the meaning of life, the relationship between morality and progress, death and immortality. And about what makes a person a person: courage and dignity, patience and faith. V. Rasputin creates images of Russian women—carriers of the moral values of the people, and of his own philosophical sense of the world—developing and enriching the image of the rural righteous woman. In the novella “Live and Remember,” the writer told an ambiguous story of a soldier whom everyone considers a deserter, showing the tragedy and the extreme imperfection of wartime.