Chapter IV: Live and Remember

David Gillespie

From Valentin Rasputin and Soviet Russian Village Prose (1986), pp. 52-60, doi:10.59860/td.c8ce90f

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Part of the book: Valentin Rasputin and Soviet Russian Village Prose

David C. Gillespie

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Abstract.  Zhivi i pomni is Rasputin's only major work not set in the contemporary period. In the last months of the Second World War, Nastyona's husband Andrey deserts from the army and returns surreptitiously to his native village, and together they resume some semblance of their pre-war relationship. Within the broad canvas of war, Rasputin thus concentrates on a tiny, seemingly inconsequential pocket of human drama, but creates in it a situation of profound and universal significance.

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