Description
After three decades in the Gulag, Ivan Grigoryevich returns to a Soviet Union transformed beyond recognition, finding himself a stranger among family, friends, and former compatriots. His homecoming becomes the starting point for a searching meditation on the human cost of tyranny, the destruction wrought by collectivization and political terror, and the uneasy relationship between memory, guilt, and survival. Combining intimate personal drama with sweeping historical reflection, the novel confronts the moral compromises of an entire society while asking whether individual freedom and conscience can endure under oppression. Written with Vasilii Grossman’s characteristic moral clarity and compassion, it is a profound, quietly devastating work about history’s victims and the possibility of human dignity.
Available Editions
paperback
Northwestern University Press
Published Jan 1, 1997
247 pages
ISBN: 9780810115033
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Details
First Published
1970
Language
eng
Translation
Original: Всё течёт
From: rus
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Forever Flowing by Vasiliĭ Semenovich Grossman.