“Life and Fate” will be broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on September 18th-25th.

《生活与命运》将于9月18日至25日在英国广播公司电台4台播出。

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This phenomenon is powerfully described in Vasily Grossman’s novel “Life and Fate” (1960).

瓦西里•格罗斯曼在1960年创作的小说《生活与命运》对此种现象进行了深入描写。

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This phenomenon is powerfully described in Vasily Grossman's novel "Life and Fate" (1960).

瓦西里·格罗斯曼在1960年创作的小说《生活与命运》对此种现象进行了深入描写。

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But besides the carnival and hocus-pocus, this book also considers deeper questions about life and fate.

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Shortly after KGB agents confiscated his novel "Life and Fate" in 1961, Soviet writer Vasily Grossman received a curious assignment: to travel to Armenia and translate a war novel.

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He is heralding the advent of the new religion, and the wall-paintings above him depict Old Testament scenes regarded by medieval theologians as events that prefigure Jesus' life and fate.

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