From “A Mother, a Wife, a Daughter” to “The Soul and Mirror of All Human Beings”. About the printed text and archival versions of The Sistine Madonna by Vasily Grossman
Abstract:The Sistine Madonna, an essay by Vasily Grossman well-known to readers all over the world, was published in 1989. Since then the text of the first edition has been republished many times and translated into many languages, but it turns out that we do not know the sources of this publication and cannot be sure that its text is authorized.
The paper presents the first attempt to establish the critical text of The Sistine Madonna. We examine all the versions of the essay found to the present day, from the … Show more
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