Sons of the Soviet apocalypse: Viktor Astaf'ev's 'The Damned and the Dead.'(Critical Essay)

From: The Modern Language Review | Date: October 1, 2002| Author: Ellis, Frank | Copyright information

The war novel 'The Damned and the Dead' (1992-1994) by Viktor Astaf'ev is discussed, with a focus on apocalyptic themes. Astaf'ev portrays Communism as the rule of the Antichrist, a time from which Russia can recover through the suffering of war.

In war a nation reveals to itself and to the world the essence of its nationhood, that primordial, enduring self, the will to survive. For Soviet Russia this will to survive culminated in the costly victory at Stalingrad, the beginning of ...

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