VIKTOR ASTAFYEV – a front-line soldier and one of the most uncompromising writers on the Great Patriotic War. Why did the author of the novel "Cursed and Killed" refuse to turn the war into a beautiful legend? What truth did he take from the front? And why did his later prose spark such a heated debate? This video explores Astafyev's difficult fate, the front, his wounds, his literature, and the book after which it was no longer possible to speak of the war in the same words.

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2. Astafyev, V.P. The Tsar-Fish. Moscow: Sovremennik, 1976.
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4. Astafyev, V.P. Cursed and Killed. Book Two. Bridgehead. Moscow: Nash sovremennik, 1992-1994.
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