Jan 6, 2010

The Case of Sergeant Grischa | The Case of Sergeant Grischa

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Author: Arnold Zweig
First Published: 1927
Type of Work: Novel
Type of Plot: Social realism
Time of Work: 1917
Setting: Russia
Genres: Long fiction, Social realism
Subjects: Escapes, 1910’s, Capital punishment, Trials, World War I, Soldiers, Prisoners of war, Russia or Russian people
Locales: Russia

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Sergeant Grischa Iljitsch Paprotkin (GREE-shah ee-LEECH pah-PROHT- kihn), a Russian soldier held as a prisoner by the Germans in 1917. Though not ill-treated by his captors, he wishes to return to his family, and so contrives an escape. During his lonely wanderings, he begins to lose his humanity, but he recovers it when he becomes the lover of Babka, a woman leading a band of refugees who take him into their midst. Sergeant Grischa assumes the identity of Sergeant Pavlovitsch Bjuscheff, a Russian deserter, so that he can avoid punishment as an escaped...

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The Case of Sergeant Grischa | The Case of Sergeant Grischa

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