The final bombardment

Author: (Russian) Bondarev
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Publish Date: 2003-01-01
Features:··（1924-）is a writer very familiar and beloved by Chinese readers. He once served as the Secretary of the Writers' Union of the Soviet Union and the Secretary of the Writers' Union of the Russian Federation, and was the Editor-in-Chief of the Military Literature Committee of the Writers' Union of the Soviet Union. During the Great Patriotic War, while still studying in high school, Bondarev put down his pen and joined the army, fighting across the country and achieving military honors. After the war, he entered Gorky Literature Institute and thus embarked on the path of literature. Highlighting humanism, depicting the beauty of humanity, and promoting respect for people were prominent features of Soviet literature in the mid-1950s, and these two works vividly reflect the characteristics of that era. For this reason, this book is not a work that promotes "the terror of war" or "pacifism," but rather celebrates the humanism of the revolution as its main theme. Bondarev (1924—), in the 1950s, his work The Last Shelling caused a huge response and fierce controversy, and was considered a representative work of the "Trench Realism" school. The 16 years after the 1970s were Bondarev's peak creative period, during which many outstanding works such as Hot Snow, the film epic The Liberation, and the novels The Shore, The Choice, and Acting were published. The meticulous realistic descriptions and moral exploration, combined with philosophical generalizations, convey the author's strong subjective feelings and profound understanding of reality, bringing his works to a level of perfection. In the 1990s, Bondarev published three more works: The Temptation (1991), Non-Resistance (1994—1995), and The Bermuda Triangle (1999). It can be said that his recent work The Bermuda Triangle is his most important and significant work. Faced with dramatic historical changes and regime shifts, some cultural elites in Russia appeared bewildered, painful, and anxious. Many of them, including Bondarev, were deeply dissatisfied with the realities of post-Soviet Russia but did not face this storm with a frivolous attitude. Instead, they described the political events and social life realities that occurred after the dissolution of the Soviet Union through the painful experiences and misfortunes of young journalist Andrei and his lover during the three years from the "October Event" of 1993 to October 1996, portraying Russia as a giant ship and losing control, expressing his extreme aversion and unease with the "historical regression" that occurred in post-Soviet Russia, and conveying his anxiety about the fate of his homeland.