Искупление

"Iskuplenie" Fridrikha Gorenshteĭna - primer masterskogo prevrashchenii͡a si͡uzheta dli͡a rasskaza s klassicheskim dli͡a dramaturgii edinstvom mesta, vremeni i deĭstvii͡a v kompaktnyĭ roman s filosofskimi razmyshlenii͡ami o Kholokoste i kinematograficheskoĭ i͡arkostʹi͡u detaleĭ.31 dekabri͡a 1945 goda. Gorod v Ukrainskoĭ SSR, nedavno osvobozhdennyĭ ot nemt͡sev. Iz armii na dva dni͡a priezzhaet leĭtenant - letchik s neobychnym imenem Avgust, chtoby uznatʹ o sudʹbe ne uspevshikh ėvakuirovatʹsi͡a rodnykh - ego evreĭskoĭ semʹi. Ego zhdet pravda, kotorai͡a strashnee uzhasov, perezhitykh im na voĭne.

Friedrich Gorenstein's "Atonement" is an example of a masterful transformation of a plot for a story with a classical unity of place, time and action for drama into a compact novel with philosophical reflections on the Holocaust and cinematic brightness of details.December 31, 1945. A city in the Ukrainian SSR, recently liberated from the Germans. A lieutenant —pilot with an unusual name August arrives from the army for two days to find out about the fate of relatives who did not have time to evacuate — his Jewish family. He is waiting for the truth, which is scarier than the horrors he experienced in the war.