Sholem Aleichem’s Curse

His gnashing of teeth over the poor, noble-hearted Jews being sent to their deaths are as manipulative as anything in Schindler’s List.

-- Sholem Aleichem’s Curse: Anti-Russian Themes in Vasily Grossman’s Life and Fate

это про Гроссмана Жизнь и судьба

статья довольно дурацкая, автор всерьез разбирает писания Гроссмана:

Yet when Grossman forgets his Jewishness and gives us the nuts-and-bolts narrative of how the Soviets emerged victorious at Stalingrad, he’s first rate. He presents a splendid array of characters...

от себя добавлю: splendid array cardboard characters

вот от переводчика - точное замечание:

And as translator Robert Chandler admits in the novel’s introduction, this makes Grossman a liar since the Russian pushback against Jewish dominance didn’t occur until the late 1940s and early 1950s—not as early as 1942 as Grossman depicts.

в общем если коротко - бездарная рецензия на бездарную книгу