“Gaz”. Ob odnom otryvke iz romana Vasilija Grossmana “Žisn’ i sud’ba” [“Gaz”. Su un frammento del romanzo “Vita e destino” di Vasilij Grossman]

The paper presents one of the first approaches to the textual criticism of Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman. Gas is a fragment of the novel that, presumably, is the first piece chosen by the author for the publication, but it did not pass the censorship; now it is conserved in the Russian State Archive of Literature and Art. The paper compares Gas with the corresponding chapters of the main editions of Life and Fate, and this analysis allows us to see some vectors of the evolution of the novel.