La última novela del autor de Vida y destino. Presentamos la novela que Vasili Grossman completó cuando ya sabía que nunca vería publicada su obra maestra, Vida y destino. Al igual que ésta, Todo fluye es una obra conmovedora y valiente sobre un momento despiadado, un retrato de la condición humana en toda su grandeza y su miseria. Grossman sintió que no podía dejar de escribirla aunque nunca viera la luz porque era necesario que alguien contara la verdad. Vida y destino situó a Grossman como uno de los grandes autores del siglo xx; su última novela lo confirma como un hombre honesto que buscaba la verdad. Moscú, 1954, un año después de la muerte de Stalin. Mientras espera la llegada de su primo Iván, que regresa tras treinta años en prisiones y campos de trabajo, Nikolai siente remordimientos porque ni una vez en todo este tiempo ha escrito a su primo ni ha contestado a sus cartas, pero ¿qué otra cosa podía hacer? En esta última novela, su testamento político y literario, Grossman disecciona la naturaleza del régimen estalinista, y de cualquier totalitarismo por extensión, en todos sus aspectos y en todas sus terribles consecuencias.
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Vasily Semyonovich Grossman (Russian: December 12, 1905 - September 14, 1964) was a Soviet writer and journalist. Grossman trained as an engineer and worked in the Donets Basin, but changed career in the 1930s and published short stories and several novels. At the outbreak of the Second World War, he became a war correspondent for the Red Army newspaper Krasnaya Zvezda, writing firsthand accounts of the battles of Moscow, Stalingrad, Kursk and Berlin. Grossman's eyewitness accounts of conditions in a Nazi extermination camp, following the liberation of Treblinka, were among the earliest.<BR><BR>After World War II, Grossman's faith in the Soviet state was shaken by Joseph Stalin's embrace of antisemitism in the final years before his death in 1953. While Grossman was never arrested by Soviet authorities, his two major literary works (Life and Fate and Everything Flows) were censored during the ensuing Nikita Khrushchev period as unacceptably anti-Soviet, and Grossman himself became in effect a nonperson. The KGB raided Grossman's flat after he had completed Life and Fate, seizing manuscripts, notes and even the ribbon from the typewriter on which the text had been written. Grossman was told by the Communist Party's chief ideologist Mikhail Suslov that the book could not be published for two or three hundred years. At the time of Grossman's death from stomach cancer in 1964, these books were unreleased. Copies were eventually smuggled out of the Soviet Union by a network of dissidents, including Andrei Sakharov and Vladimir Voinovich, and first published in the West, before appearing in the Soviet Union in 1988.<BR><BR>Wikipedia