ABSTRACT
War does not come to writers in a different shape than it does to “ordinary” people. It does not go especially hard on them, nor does it spare them. But writers, even when young, tend to feel more intensely about extraordinary happenings, and they retain their impressions in a more vivid form. Even many of those writers who were not personally affected by the events of the war (in terms of loss of family members or major changes in the family's material fortune) are motivated to become writers by the desire to sort out, for themselves and their contemporaries, the cause and meaning of the great social and historical upheavals that have changed the destiny of their nation.
