VASILY GROSSMAN
The Power of the Human in Man

Exhibition promoted by the Study Center Vasilij Grossman

Curated by Anna Bonola, Maurizia Calusio, Giovanni Maddalena, Michele Rosboch, Pietro Tosco, Anna Krasnikova, Julija Volochova, Claudia De Benedetti, Raffaela Paggi
In collaboration with: Centro Culturale Piergiorgio Frassati (Turin), Fondazione Grossman (Milan), Fondazione Russia Cristiana , Associazione Esserci , Fondazione Casale Ebraica (Casale Monferrato)

The exhibition traces the literary, human, and intellectual journey of Vasilij Grossman. In his work, Grossman moves from a socialist humanistic realism to a metaphysical/religious realism, where he discovers that reality is also made up of goodness, truth, justice, the eternity of life, and freedom.
In his final years, he comes to understand that reality carries within itself the need for forgiveness and mercy, even in an age of massacres.
Ultimately, reading Grossman—an agnostic author—helps us understand that “God exists and life can have a happy outcome” (Fr. Giussani), and that humanity can find peace only in this awareness.