Ideological Words and Words from Life in Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman

The author carries out an analysis of linguistic aspects in “Life and Fate” by V. Grossman. The analysis points out two kinds of communication in the novel: the totalitarian communication versus the antitotalitarian one. Their linguistic and communicative features are then described taking into account different examples and a special emphasis is put on how do they cooperate to the narrative-thematic construction of the novel. The author shows as well how these linguistic structures express some central point of Grossman conception of human being and of the aim of art.