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  • 9781440657504
  • 01 december 1999
  • 240 pagina's
  • Adobe ePub
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John Steinbeck

John Steinbeck (1902-1968) kreeg grote bekendheid door zijn romans 'The Grapes of Wrath' (1939) en 'East of Eden' (1952). In 1962 kreeg Steinbeck de Nobelprijs voor de Literatuur.

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Steinbeck and Capa's account of their journey through Cold War Russia is a classic piece of reportage and travel writing.

Just after the Iron Curtain fell on Eastern Europe, Pulitzer Prize-winning author John Steinbeck and acclaimed war photographer Robert Capa ventured into the Soviet Union to report for the New York Herald Tribune. This rare opportunity took the famous travelers not only to Moscow and Stalingrad - now Volgograd - but through the countryside of the Ukraine and the Caucasus. Hailed by the New York Times as "superb" when it first appeared in 1948, A Russian Journal is the distillation of their journey and remains a remarkable memoir and unique historical document.

What they saw and movingly recorded in words and on film was what Steinbeck called "the great other side there ... the private life of the Russian people." Unlike other Western reporting about Russia at the time, A Russian Journal is free of ideological obsessions. Rather, Steinbeck and Capa recorded the grim realities of factory workers, government clerks, and peasants, as they emerged from the rubble of World War II-represented here in Capa's stirring photographs alongside Steinbeck's masterful prose. Through it all, we are given intimate glimpses of two artists at the height of their powers, answering their need to document human struggle. This edition features an introduction by Steinbeck scholar Susan Shillinglaw.



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Susan Shillinglaw

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  • A Russian Journal revisited

    A Russian Journal revisited

    In 1947 John Steinbeck and Robert Capa made a journey through Russia – Moscow, Stalingrad, now Volgograd, Kiev and Tbilisi/ Tiflis and again Moscow – just in the time the 'Iron Curtain' closes.

    Their quest is to discover 'the great other side' and show 'the private life of the Russian people' as they say themselves 'to set down what we saw and heard without editorial comment'. So they report about their trip in A Russian Journal, not The Russian Journal.

    To John Steinbeck this trip and journal come at an interesting point in his carrier, after he has written his masterpiece 'The Grapes of Wrath' (1939) and before his most personal and experimental novel 'East of Eden' (1952).

    In A Russian Journal John Steinbeck and Robert Capa capture a few of those individual Russian souls who endured in a system ready to smother all creativity. They capture those portraits with intelligence, compassion, humor and eye for detail.

    If we look at the actuality of Poetin's Russia in 2014 we see a drawback to the times the 'Iron Curtain' closed. With people on both sides, east and west, having such different views. Would it not be very interesting to make the journey John Steinbeck and Robert Capa made over again. With the same quest to discover 'the great other side'.

    As John Steinbeck puts it 'I believe one job of a writer is to set down his time nearly as he can understand it'.

    Note the photo's I uploaded on this page are some of the beautiful pictures Robert Cape made during this trip.

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