Summary
Roman Pavić: Greetings from Stalingrad
Greetings from Stalingrad is a novel about love, art and war. In his debut, Roman Pavić carefully and carefully builds a wide gallery of characters, bringing to life in detail Zagreb before the Second World War, its artistic and political circles from the perspective of his main characters: the painter Leon, the doctor Ivan specializing in London, and the Osijek Franciscan Father Robert, whose destinies are intertwined with the most important historical actors of that time, from Ljuba Babić and Ivan Meštrović to Alojzij Stepinac and Winston Churchill.
Greetings from Stalingrad is the saga of three friends caught in the whirlwind of world events, who miraculously survive the Battle of Stalingrad, where they did not go of their own free will, only to succeed in distinguishing themselves with their abilities in Soviet captivity and become full-fledged Red Army men, who will encounter a different kind of ideological blindness upon their return to Yugoslavia. This novel is a contemporary historical fresco that skilfully combines a fictional story, real documents and thoughts of the actors of the time in question. Greetings from Stalingrad is a small literary sensation, a new historical novel in which the most interesting and ideologically charged period of contemporary history is refracted without ideological glasses.
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