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25 Nov 2024 Conversations with Tyler Russ Roberts on Vasily Grossman's Life and Fate
“There’s Dante and Swift and Homer and Huck Finn, which are all about journeys, and he’s taking us on our journey through this war, through this battle, through Soviet and Nazi life. I think that’s another way he thought of the book.”
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- 25 Nov 2024
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…Yes, that’s nice. Stendhal is also mentioned several times, The Charterhouse of Parma, which is a book about war and individual fate, and I strongly suspect all of the literary references have some meaning to Grossman. There’s Dante and Swift and Homer and Huck Finn, which are all about journeys, and he’s taking us on our journey through this war, through this battle, through Soviet and Nazi life. I think that’s another way he thought of the book. That’s right.…
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