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The Slavic Literature PodThe People Immortal by Vasily GrossmanShow Notes:This week, Cameron returns to Vasily Grossman, covering his first novel of World War II, The People Immortal. I’ll write more later, but it’s almost 5 a.m. and I have to be at work in four hours. Womp womp. The music used in this episode was “Старое Кино / Staroye Kino,” by Перемотка / Peremotka. You can find more of their work on Bandcamp and Youtube. Our links: Website | Discord Socials: Instagram | BlueSky | Twitter | FacebookQuestions, comments, want to hear...
2025-09-261h 17
2025 Le mostre06 | Vasilij Grossman. La forza dell’umano nell’uomo - Piazza A5Vasilij GrossmanLa forza dell’umano nell’uomoGiovanni Lunetta, con un'intervista a Giovanni MaddalenaMostra promossa da Study Center Vasily GrossmanA cura di Anna Bonola, Maurizia Calusio, Claudia De Benedetti, Anna Krasnikova, Giovanni Maddalena, Raffaela Paggi, Michele Rosboch, Pietro Tosco, Julija Volochova.Con la collaborazione di Associazione Esserci, Centro Culturale Pier Giorgio Frassati ETS, Fondazione Casale Ebraica ETS, Fondazione Grossman ETS, Fondazione Russia Cristiana.Con il sostegno di Intesa Sanpaolo.Con il sostegno di Fondazione CRT.Con il contributo della Fondazione Grossman e dell’ Università degli Studi del Mol...
2025-08-2204 min
New Books in BiographyAlexandra Popoff, "Vasily Grossman and the Soviet Century" (Yale UP, 2019)Memory and truth are malleable and nowhere more so than in the Soviet Union. To be a writer in that country was to face an ongoing dilemma: conform to State-mandated topics and themes, or consign oneself to obscurity, writing only for “the desk drawer” or “without permission.”Vasily Grossman challenged that binary choice, creating some of the most compelling and uncompromising fiction and journalism of the century, but also enduring heartbreaking censorship. Her excellent new biography, Vasily Grossman and the Soviet Century (Yale University Press, 2019) brings the life and work of this often-overlooked writer into brilliant focus. Biography...
2025-04-241h 09
New Books in Russian and Eurasian StudiesAlexandra Popoff, "Vasily Grossman and the Soviet Century" (Yale UP, 2019)Memory and truth are malleable and nowhere more so than in the Soviet Union. To be a writer in that country was to face an ongoing dilemma: conform to State-mandated topics and themes, or consign oneself to obscurity, writing only for “the desk drawer” or “without permission.”Vasily Grossman challenged that binary choice, creating some of the most compelling and uncompromising fiction and journalism of the century, but also enduring heartbreaking censorship. Her excellent new biography, Vasily Grossman and the Soviet Century (Yale University Press, 2019) brings the life and work of this often-overlooked writer into brilliant focus. Biography...
2025-04-231h 07
New Books in Jewish StudiesAlexandra Popoff, "Vasily Grossman and the Soviet Century" (Yale UP, 2019)Memory and truth are malleable and nowhere more so than in the Soviet Union. To be a writer in that country was to face an ongoing dilemma: conform to State-mandated topics and themes, or consign oneself to obscurity, writing only for “the desk drawer” or “without permission.”Vasily Grossman challenged that binary choice, creating some of the most compelling and uncompromising fiction and journalism of the century, but also enduring heartbreaking censorship. Her excellent new biography, Vasily Grossman and the Soviet Century (Yale University Press, 2019) brings the life and work of this often-overlooked writer into brilliant focus. Biography...
2025-04-231h 09
New Books in Ukrainian StudiesAlexandra Popoff, "Vasily Grossman and the Soviet Century" (Yale UP, 2019)Memory and truth are malleable and nowhere more so than in the Soviet Union. To be a writer in that country was to face an ongoing dilemma: conform to State-mandated topics and themes, or consign oneself to obscurity, writing only for “the desk drawer” or “without permission.”Vasily Grossman challenged that binary choice, creating some of the most compelling and uncompromising fiction and journalism of the century, but also enduring heartbreaking censorship. Her excellent new biography, Vasily Grossman and the Soviet Century (Yale University Press, 2019) brings the life and work of this often-overlooked writer into brilliant focus. Biography...
2025-04-231h 07
New Books in Eastern European StudiesAlexandra Popoff, "Vasily Grossman and the Soviet Century" (Yale UP, 2019)Memory and truth are malleable and nowhere more so than in the Soviet Union. To be a writer in that country was to face an ongoing dilemma: conform to State-mandated topics and themes, or consign oneself to obscurity, writing only for “the desk drawer” or “without permission.”Vasily Grossman challenged that binary choice, creating some of the most compelling and uncompromising fiction and journalism of the century, but also enduring heartbreaking censorship. Her excellent new biography, Vasily Grossman and the Soviet Century (Yale University Press, 2019) brings the life and work of this often-overlooked writer into brilliant focus. Biography...
2025-04-231h 09
New Books in Literary StudiesAlexandra Popoff, "Vasily Grossman and the Soviet Century" (Yale UP, 2019)Memory and truth are malleable and nowhere more so than in the Soviet Union. To be a writer in that country was to face an ongoing dilemma: conform to State-mandated topics and themes, or consign oneself to obscurity, writing only for “the desk drawer” or “without permission.”Vasily Grossman challenged that binary choice, creating some of the most compelling and uncompromising fiction and journalism of the century, but also enduring heartbreaking censorship. Her excellent new biography, Vasily Grossman and the Soviet Century (Yale University Press, 2019) brings the life and work of this often-overlooked writer into brilliant focus. Biography...
2025-04-231h 09
Βελανίδια κανείς;Μόσχα 1941 | Β' Παγκόσμιος ΠόλεμοςΣε αυτό το επεισόδιο, η συνέχεια της επιχείρησης Μπαρμπαρόσα, η πορεία των ναζί προς την Μόσχα και μια παρέλαση που έμεινε στην Ιστορία.Βιβλιογραφία:Richard J. Evans - The Third Reich at War (2009, Penguin USA)Vasily Grossman,Antony Beevor,Luba Vinogradova - A Writer At War -Vasily Grossman with the Red Army 1941-1945 (2010, Vintage Digital)
2025-04-0919 min
The Learning CurveAlexandra Popoff on Vasily Grossman & Holocaust RemembranceIn this special Holocaust Remembrance Day episode of The Learning Curve, co-hosts U-Arkansas Prof. Albert Cheng and the Heritage Foundation's Jason Bedrick interview Alexandra Popoff, a former Moscow journalist and acclaimed biographer. Ms. Popoff delves into the life and legacy of Vasily Grossman, a 20th-century Jewish Soviet writer and journalist. She explores Grossman's transition from chemical engineering to writing, influenced by his Jewish heritage and the historical context of the time. Popoff discusses Grossman's role as a war correspondent for the Red Army newspaper, covering key WWII battles and providing early rep...
2025-01-2751 min
Podcast di ICVoices from Stalingrad. Podcast PresentationPodcast presentation. Voices from Stalingrad written by Ferdinanda Cremascoli, translated in collaboration with Chat GPT, read automatically by Narakeet.Two novels about the Second World War, "Stalingrad" and "Life and Fate" by Vasily Grossman, his masterpiece, reveal how a war of liberation can culminate in servitude, and a battle against ruthless tyranny can result in the establishment of another bloody tyranny.The masterpiece of Vasily Grossman tells the story of a war, a people’s war, and tells the story of a disappointment. But it also tells a story of trust in the moral energy of a p...
2024-12-0202 min
EconTalkTranslating Life and Fate (with Robert Chandler)What does it take to translate a 900-page Russian novel written before the fall of the Soviet Union? For Robert Chandler it meant living in a seaside cottage for four months to immerse himself completely in the characters' lives and to meet his publisher's deadline. Listen as Chandler, the translator of Vasily Grossman's masterpiece Life and Fate and many of his other works, speaks with EconTalk's Russ Roberts about Grossman, the art of translation, and the challenges of bringing a sprawling Russian classic to English-speaking readers.
2024-12-021h 18
Conversations with TylerRuss Roberts on Vasily Grossman's Life and FateIn this crossover episode with EconTalk, Tyler joins Russ Roberts for an in-depth exploration of Vasily Grossman's Life and Fate, a monumental novel often described as the 20th-century answer to Tolstoy's War and Peace. Russ and Tyler cover Grossman's life and the historical context of Life and Fate, its themes of war, totalitarianism, freedom, and fate, the novel's polyphonic structure and large cast of characters, the parallels between fascism and communism, the idea of "senseless kindness" as a counter to systemic evil, the symbolic importance of motherhood, the psychology of confession and loyalty under totalitarian systems, Grossman's...
2024-11-251h 01
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2024-08-1507 minThe Slavic Literature PodLife and Fate (Part 3, Chs. 19-48) by GrossmanShow Notes:This week, Matt and Cameron stay in Stalingrad to the bitter end, covering Chapters 19 to 48 in Part 3 of Vasily Grossman’s Life and Fate. Stalin’s phone calls, the 6th Army’s surrender, and senseless kindness oh my! It’s all coming together. Get your horsemeat and get ready to tune in.Major themes: Unrewarded kindness, family ties, the State and the individualThe music used in this episode was “Старое Кино / Staroye Kino,” by Перемотка / Peremotka. You can find more of their work on Bandcamp and Youtube. Our links: Websi...
2024-06-281h 08
HarshaneeyamRobert Chandler on Teffi the writer & His Translation of 'And Time was No More and Essential Stories and Memories'Our guest for this Episode is the renowned Russian Translator Robert Chandler. He delves into the world of the celebrated Russian Writer Teffi, discussing his translation of the recently released short story compilation 'The Time was no More and Essential Stories and Memories' penned by Teffi. Robert first began learning Russian when he was 15. At 20, he spent a year as a British Council Exchange scholar in Voronezh, the city where Andrey Platonov was born and where Osip Mandelstam was exiled. It was there that he first read these two writers, who have remained precious to him throughout h...
2024-06-0544 minThe Slavic Literature PodLife and Fate (P. 2, Chs. 51-62, P.3 Chs. 1-18) by GrossmanShow Notes:This week, Matt and Cameron finish the encirclement of Paulus’ 6th Army in Stalingrad as they cover Vasily Grossman’s Life and Fate from Part 2, Chapter 51 through Part 3, Chapter 18. After fighting from the back foot for months — exhausting all those still on the front line, civilian and soldier alike — it’s time for the USSR to swing two great hammers down into the fascist forces. Despite their victory, all is not well for the Red Army.Major themes: Madonna and babe, redemptive humanism, gossip29:08 - We all mak...
2024-05-311h 08The Slavic Literature PodLife and Fate (P.2, Chs. 21-50) by GrossmanShow Notes:This week, Matt and Cameron keep up the pace in Vasily Grossman’s Life and Fate, covering Part 2, chapters 21 through 50. They’ll be covering everything from Klimov’s All Quiet on the Western Front moment in Battlefield Stalingrad to the death camps that take up much of the latter chapters for this part. Get ready to get sad, and tune in. Major themes: Why fight wars, no step on snake, not the purge exactly01:02:19 - “Art and Politics” by William T. VollmanThe mu...
2024-04-261h 13The Slavic Literature PodLife and Fate (P.1 Chs. 61-70, P.2 Chs. 1-20) by GrossmanShow Notes:This week, Matt and Cameron continue their quest through Vasily Grossman’s Life and Fate, covering Part 1, chs.61-70 along with Part 2, chs. 1-20. They’ll be going into greater depth about the state of Grossman’s world, the nature of fascism, and will dive a little bit into the nature of science in the USSR. Major themes: Provocative moral questions, totalitarian ideology, World War 2 worship01:57 - Find “Life and Fate - Chapter A Day Read Along” anywhere you get your podcasts, Apple Podca...
2024-03-291h 04The Slavic Literature PodLife and Fate (P.1, Chs. 32-60) by GrossmanShow Notes:This week, Matt and Cameron stay on the Life and Fate grind, covering Part 1’s chapters 32 through 60. Time to talk hospital tours, tank corp organization, and front-line commissars oh my! Get your canteen full of carefully boiled water and tune in! They’ll be briefly recapping the events covered in these chapters, but for a complete play-by-play, check out our daily read along episodes: the current’s month’s chapters will be in our main feed, and all previous month’s chapters can be found under Vasily Grossman’s...
2024-03-011h 13The Slavic Literature PodLife and Fate (P.1, Chs. 1-31) by GrossmanShow Notes:You can sign up for our email list here, where we are currently sending daily analysis emails as part of our Life and Fate read alongThis week, Matt and Cameron — after numerous daily episodes — start outlining some of the main themes covered in Vasily Grossman’s Life and Fate, chapters 1-31, and talk a little (read: a lot) more about his life. Grab your flak vest and get ready for some front-line reporting, it’s time for the Gross-cast. Major themes: A wolfish...
2024-01-261h 00The Slavic Literature PodDecember Break: The Sistine Madonna by GrossmanShow Notes:Note: This is a re-run of Vasily Grossman's "The Sistine Madonna." Matt and Cameron have finished reading Stalingrad, but they aren’t yet done with Grossman. This week, they tackle his short story “The Sistine Madonna.” Written before the publication of Stalingrad and after he began to write Life and Fate, “The Sistine Madonna” is a piece about beauty, desperation, and hope for the future. Oh, and thermonuclear war. It covers a lot of ground. Grab your Bibles to track the religious analogies and tune in!Major theme...
2023-12-2939 minThe Slavic Literature PodComing Soon: Supporter Drive '23This week, Matt and Cameron start up the December Supporter Drive 2023, aiming to raise their paying monthly supporters by 10 people. If you're interested in supporting us, you can do so here.So why are we asking for the money? To answer that, we recorded several short episodes covering our purpose (as we see it), how we plan to spend the money, and how we're looking to expand into the future.This week, we'll talking about what's coming next for us. Of course, we'll be touching on our upcoming Life and Fate Read Along -- but i...
2023-12-1506 min
The Danger Zone (DZ)DZ Season 032 Part 04 The First Day of the Holocaust. Final Part.In January 1944, Vasily Grossman, a non-practising Jew, entered the town of his birth, Berdichev in the Ukraine, to finally confirm that his mother had been murdered by the Nazis. It was the first time he’d been back there for a long time. Soon after the German invasion of Russia on 22 June 1941, he’d left his mother and other members of his family there because his wife, Olga Mikhailovna, had refused to let them move into their flat in Moscow. The flat was big enough for everyone. Vasily was a member of the prestigious Writer’s Guild and had more g...
2023-05-2325 min
The Danger Zone (DZ)DZ Season 032 Part 01 . The First Day of the Holocaust. Gentile Wife - Not Really into Jewish Mother-in-Law. Leave Her in Nazi Occupied City.Everything has to start somewhere. This programme’s about the first day of the holocaust. Not the efficient extermination camps like Auschwitz. But men working hard days organising the digging of deep pits (just the right length), ammunition (you don’t want to run out half way through), organising Jews to the site and then shooting them all day long (you need plenty of Schnapps for the men) until there were none left. Standartenführer (Colonel) Paul Blobel was the right man for the job. In September 1941, they nailed it at the Ukrainian town of Berdichev. But first you need...
2023-05-1924 min
Unburied BooksStalingrad with Antony BeevorHistorian Antony Beevor joins us to discuss Stalingrad written by Vasily Grossman and translated from Russian by Robert and Elizabeth Chandler. We talk about Grossman's observational powers, the boundaries between history and literature, and the context surrounding the book's narrative. Listeners unfamiliar with the plot may want to wait until they've read the book to tune in.
Read more about our guest's work here.
References:A Writer at WarLuba VinogradovaChristopher MacLehoseAndrew NurnbergArthur GrimmWar and Peace by Leo TolstoyLife and FateThe...
2023-05-161h 05
The Danger Zone (DZ)Season 027 Part 01 DZ Treblinka. First and Final Part.In the last week of July 1944 units of the Red Army’s 1st Byelorussian Front overran the abandoned site of an SS Death Camp known as Treblinka – more
precisely the Germans called it Treblinka II. Treblinka I was a labour camp for people that were not to be exterminated on arrival.
Vasily Grossman, a non-practising Jew, was with these Red Army units. He is the outstanding Russian novelist of the 20th Century. He served throughout
the whole war, known to us as World War II but to the Russians as the Great Patriotic War, as a journalist on the Krasnaya Zved...
2023-05-0925 min
Unburied BooksA School for Fools with José VergaraScholar José Vergara joins the show to talk about A School for Fools written by Sasha Sokolov and translated from Russian by Alexander Boguslawski. Enroll in a fabulous world where the dead are alive, language changes forms, minds split, and love flowers.
Read our guest's article on A School for Fools here and more about his work here.
References:All Future Plunges to the PastJames JoyceJ. D. SalingerBetween Dog and WolfAstrophobiaMartina NapolitanoStalingrad by Vasily GrossmanVasily AksyonovAndrei BitovNiko...
2023-04-1857 min
The Danger Zone (DZ)DZ Season 010 Part 01 Ukrainian Holocaust. The Kulaks are Parasites!Today many people tell us that we should forget about history, we don’t need it. But then those same people tell us about all of the sins of our past that we must be deeply ashamed of today. If they say history doesn’t matter, then why are they telling us that we should be ashamed of our history. Slavery. Colonialism.
There’s far more interesting history to talk about than those old issues. That history really interesting history doesn’t go back hundreds of years. Times from which there isn’t one living person. This interestin...
2023-03-1225 min
The Danger Zone (DZ)DZ Season 001 Part 10. World Safe for Communism Yalta - the World is RapedIt’s a fact of life that your bargaining power is at its weakest when you’re at your weakest. As I’ve discussed before this, paradoxically, didn’t apply to Stalin in World War II. Stalin could as easily have swapped sides, again. He had already been aligned to Hitler, during World War II. He could have joined with Hitler again if the right deal was offered. For the English, who should have done a deal with Hitler in May of 1940 after the fall of France, that was out of the question. To do that would have been morally wrong.
F...
2023-01-1923 min
Better KnownAlexandra PopoffAlexandra Popoff is a former Moscow journalist and Alfred Friendly Press Partners fellow. She is an expert on Russian literature and cultural history and the author of five literary biographies, including the award-winning Sophia Tolstoy and Vasily Grossman and the Soviet Century. Her book The Wives became a Wall Street Journal best non-fiction title for 2012. Popoff’s biography of Vasily Grossman won the Canadian Jewish Literary Award for biography, Saskatchewan Nonfiction Award, became a finalist in the 2019 National Jewish Book Awards, and was long-listed for the 2019 Cundill History Prize. Her new book, a biography of Ayn Rand, will be pu...
2023-01-0128 minNew Books in Eastern European StudiesIan Garner, "Stalingrad Lives!: Stories of Combat and Survival" (McGill-Queen's Press, 2022)In the fall of 1942, only the city of Stalingrad stood between Soviet survival and defeat as Hitler’s army ran rampant. With the fate of the USSR hanging in the balance, Soviet propaganda chiefs sent their finest writers into the heat of battle. After six months of terrifying work, these men succeeded in creating an enduring epic of Stalingrad. Their harrowing tales of valour and heroism offered hope for millions of readers. “Stalingrad lives!” went the rallying cry: the city had to live if the nation was to stave off defeat. In Stalingrad Lives!: Stories of Combat and Surv...
2022-12-2654 min
New Books in German StudiesIan Garner, "Stalingrad Lives!: Stories of Combat and Survival" (McGill-Queen's Press, 2022)In the fall of 1942, only the city of Stalingrad stood between Soviet survival and defeat as Hitler’s army ran rampant. With the fate of the USSR hanging in the balance, Soviet propaganda chiefs sent their finest writers into the heat of battle. After six months of terrifying work, these men succeeded in creating an enduring epic of Stalingrad. Their harrowing tales of valour and heroism offered hope for millions of readers. “Stalingrad lives!” went the rallying cry: the city had to live if the nation was to stave off defeat. In Stalingrad Lives!: Stories of Combat and Surv...
2022-12-2653 minNew Books in Russian and Eurasian StudiesIan Garner, "Stalingrad Lives!: Stories of Combat and Survival" (McGill-Queen's Press, 2022)In the fall of 1942, only the city of Stalingrad stood between Soviet survival and defeat as Hitler’s army ran rampant. With the fate of the USSR hanging in the balance, Soviet propaganda chiefs sent their finest writers into the heat of battle. After six months of terrifying work, these men succeeded in creating an enduring epic of Stalingrad. Their harrowing tales of valour and heroism offered hope for millions of readers. “Stalingrad lives!” went the rallying cry: the city had to live if the nation was to stave off defeat. In Stalingrad Lives!: Stories of Combat and Surv...
2022-12-2653 min
New Books in Military HistoryIan Garner, "Stalingrad Lives!: Stories of Combat and Survival" (McGill-Queen's Press, 2022)In the fall of 1942, only the city of Stalingrad stood between Soviet survival and defeat as Hitler’s army ran rampant. With the fate of the USSR hanging in the balance, Soviet propaganda chiefs sent their finest writers into the heat of battle. After six months of terrifying work, these men succeeded in creating an enduring epic of Stalingrad. Their harrowing tales of valour and heroism offered hope for millions of readers. “Stalingrad lives!” went the rallying cry: the city had to live if the nation was to stave off defeat. In Stalingrad Lives!: Stories of Combat and Surv...
2022-12-2654 min
Book Club for Masochists: a Readers' Advisory PodcastEpisode 165 - Favourite Reads of 2022This episode we're talking about our Favourite Reads of 2022! (Some of them were even published in 2022!) We discuss our favourite things we read for the podcast and our favourite things we read not for the podcast. Plus: Many more things we enjoyed this year, including video games, manga, graphic novels, food, and more! You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, or your favourite podcast delivery system. In this episode Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | Jam Edwards Favourite Fiction
2022-12-2057 minBook Club for Masochists: a Readers' Advisory PodcastEpisode 164 - Military FictionThis episode we're talking about Military Fiction! We discuss jingoism, how war is hell, war stories vs military fiction, clichés, historical fiction, and more! You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, or your favourite podcast delivery system. In this episode Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | Jam Edwards Things We Read (or tried to…) A Summer for War by Darrell Duthie All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque, translated by Arthur Wesley Wheen Battlefields, vol...
2022-12-061h 20
The Slavic Literature PodRobert Chandler Talks Stalingrad and TranslationShow Notes: This week, Matt and Cameron sit down with Robert Chandler, a prolific translator of many authors including our own beloved Grossman. Robert Chandler’s translations from Russian, mostly for NYRB Classics and Vintage Classics, include works by Alexander Pushkin and Nikolay Leskov; collections of stories and memoirs by Teffi; and novels and stories by Vasily Grossman, Andrey Platonov and Hamid Ismailov. He is the main translator of three anthologies of Russian literature for Penguin Classics: of short stories, magic tales and poetry. His most recent publications are Pushkin’s Peter the Great’s African and Vasily Gr...
2022-11-2537 min
Book StopGrossman, the 20th Century Tolstoy | Book Stop | Episode 03Russian writer Vasily Grossman is known among his readers as Tolstoy of the 20th century. The third episode of Book Stop podcast reviews the literary contributions of Grossman. His book 'Life and Fate' had faced the strange fate of getting arrested by KGB sleuths, says Suneetha Balakrishnan who produces and presents the podcast for The Fourth.
2022-11-1915 min
Centropa StoriesS3E13: B1: Vasily Grossman’s essay, “Ukraine Without Jews“ From the English translation by Polly Zavadivkernarrated by
Jason Isaacs
In this episode, we take a drive out of Kyiv. Our destination is the village of Kozary, 82 kilometers to the north. This is where, in October 1943, the reporter Vasily Grossman wrote his searing essay, Ukraine Without Jews.
2022-11-1113 min
The Slavic Literature PodThe Sistine Madonna by GrossmanShow Notes:Matt and Cameron have finished reading Stalingrad, but they aren’t yet done with Grossman. This week, they tackle his short story “The Sistine Madonna.” Written before the publication of Stalingrad and after he began to write Life and Fate, “The Sistine Madonna” is a piece about beauty, desperation, and hope for the future. Oh, and thermonuclear war. It covers a lot of ground. Grab your Bibles to track the religious analogies and tune in!Major themes: Non-religious Christianity, Aesthetic anti-Sovietism, Eternal Beauty03:49 - Okay, I was clos...
2022-11-0440 min
The Slavic Literature PodStalingrad (Part 3, Chs. 35-56) by GrossmanShow Notes:This week, Matt and Cameron finish up Vasily Grossman’s Stalingrad as we close the story of Rodimtsev’s embattled Guards Regiment in the city of Stalingrad and close out (for now!) the stories of the people we’ve been following for months now. We’ll be talking about Feminist perspectives on the work, de-mythologization of warfare, and spending some time drinking our feelings out about our favorite character, Pyotr Vavilov. Grab your copy of Stalingrad, your preferred celebratory drink, and tune in!Major themes: Motherhood, the soldier as adolescent, the spir...
2022-10-211h 31
The Slavic Literature PodStalingrad (Part 3, Chs. 23-36) by GrossmanShow Notes:This week, Matt and Cameron close in on the end of Vasily Grossman’s Stalingrad and talk about the actual battle in the city. We jump around from the Soviet reinforcements crossing the Volga to Wehrmacht soldiers celebrating their victory a little too early. As always, the story of war is really the story of the humans there and Grossman will never let us forget that. Find some looted booze and tune in!Major themes: Byzantium Marxism and Postmodernism Oh My!, Political alienation, The Gros-Cast05:38...
2022-10-211h 20
Reading GlassesEp 277 - Be A Book Reaper - How To Deal with Reading FOMOBrea and Mallory discuss a huge reader woe - book FOMO. Plus, an interview with Andy Marino, and book recommendations set in South America! Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com!Reading Glasses MerchRecommendations StoreSponsors -GreenChefwww.greenchef.com/GLASSES135CODE: GLASSES135Dipseawww.dipseastories.com/GLASSES Links -Reading Glasses Facebook GroupReading Glasses Goodreads GroupAmazon Wish ListNewsletterLibro.fmHalloween Readathon10/23
2022-10-131h 03
The Slavic Literature PodStalingrad (Part 3, Chs. 1-22) by GrossmanShow Notes:This week, Matt and Cameron continue on to the Third and Final part of Vasily Grossman’s Stalingrad! After 800 pages, we finally approach…the Battle of Stalingrad. Well, the best things come to those who wait. Grab your wartime moonshine of preference, get a move on toward the city, and don’t forget to tune in!Major themes: Labyrinth of plots but make it depressing, Defamiliarization in art, The Origin of Tomatoes00:51 - Check out Puppet Combo’s Night Shit! Since it’s now October (if, indeed...
2022-10-071h 02
The Slavic Literature PodStalingrad (Part 2, Chs. 40-52) by GrossmanShow Notes:This week, Matt and Cameron finish out Part 7 of Stalingrad, learning more about the emotional aftermath of the Shaposhnikov family and friends’ losses - and, naturally, are introduced to an entirely new character. It’s time to learn about coal mining, babey. Grab your helmet-mounted flashlight, a boring tool, and get ready to get deep into some soot.Major themes: Tank Corps time babey, Legendary pettiness, Grossman’s Cement,06:24 *sister for being bad at art10:45 - Vasily Grossman and the Soviet Century by Alexan...
2022-09-231h 24
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2022-09-011h 39
The Slavic Literature PodStalingrad (Part 1, Chs. 35-52) by GrossmanShow Notes:This week, Matt and Cameron continue on with the set-up to the siege of Stalingrad, following more of Viktor Shtrum as well as Commissar Nikolai Krymov in their respective adventures in Moscow and on the Eastern Front. We’ll be getting into the nitty-gritty on the idea of Grossman as a “soviet Tolstoy” so grab your finest wartime moonshine and tune in to hear our incendiary hot takes!Major themes: Soviet Tolstoy(?), Genuflecting Grossmans, What Makes the Soviet Union? Take a look at our World War 2 b...
2022-08-121h 17
The Slavic Literature PodStalingrad (Part 1, Chs. 19-34) by GrossmanShow Notes:This week, Matt and Cameron continue to dig their trench and get ready for the oncoming siege of Stalingrad in Part 2 of their 10 Part series on Stalingrad. We’ll be learning a little more about Grossman’s life and will follow Grossman’s masterful depiction of the first years of World War 2 on Soviet territory. Get the hidden moonshine out of the cellar, fry up the last of the Doktorskaya kalbasa, and tune in!Major themes: Erasure of civilians in war, Call of Duty, Ideology and scienceL...
2022-08-051h 10
The Slavic Literature PodStalingrad (Part 1, Chs. 1-18) by GrossmanShow Notes:This week, Matt and Cameron kick off their biggest podcast series ever with one of the most obscure choices possible for such a venture: Stalingrad by Vasily Grossman. Stalingrad is the first book in a dilogy, followed by the much more famous Life and Fate, which covers the siege of the city of Stalingrad by the German Wehrmacht in World War 2. We’re going to be dealing with a whole cast of characters here and their varied experiences of the war so get a pencil and paper, get ready to start diagramming family trees, and tu...
2022-07-221h 13
The Curious TaskDeirdre McCloskey - Why Does Liberalism Work?Alex speaks with Deirdre McCloskey in a wide-ranging conversation that addresses the economic, philosophical, and political reasons why liberalism just works.
References
1. “Why Liberalism Works: How True Liberal Values Produce a Freer, More Equal, Prosperous World for All” by Dierdre Nansen McCloskey
Link: https://www.amazon.ca/Why-Liberalism-Works-Liberal-Prosperous/dp/0300235089
2. “The Bourgeois Virtues: Ethics for an Age of Commerce” by Dierdre Nansen McCloskey
Link: https://www.amazon.ca/Bourgeois-Virtues-Ethics-Age-Commerce/dp/0226556646
3. “Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can’t Explain Modern World” by Dierdre Nansen McCloskey
Link: https://www.amazon.ca/Bourgeoi...
2022-05-181h 04
Reseña en hiloSegunda temporada "Vida y destino" Vasily Grossman"Vida y destino" es una obra que conmovió al revelar cómo se vivió del lado de la gente la Segunda Guerra Mundial en lo que era la Unión Soviética. Su autor no vio publicada esta novela en vida.
2022-04-0705 min
The Biblio File hosted by Nigel BealeJames Wood on his role as a book criticJames Wood is a literary critic, essayist and novelist. He was The Guardian's chief literary critic between 1992 and 1995, and a senior editor at The New Republic between 1995 and 2007. Since roughly that time he's taught the Practice of Literary Criticism at Harvard University and has been a staff writer and book critic at The New Yorker magazine. In 2009, he won the National Magazine Award for reviews and criticism. Books include How Fiction Works, the novel Upstate, and essay collections The Irresponsible Self, The Broken Estate and most recently Serious Noticing. We talk about James's role as a book critic...
2022-04-041h 04
Podcast Jornalismo(s)EPISÓDIO 9 - GRADUAÇÃO E O PAPEL DO JORNALISMOOlá, ouvintes!Neste nono episódio do Podcast Jornalismo(s), entrevistamos Marcelo Bamonte para bater um papo sobre a graduação e o papel do jornalismo. Marcelo é jornalista, tradutor, editor e mestrando em ciências sociais, além de ser militante do PCB.O nosso podcast é dedicado a politizar o jornalismo através de entrevistas com profissionais e pesquisadores para levantar debates críticos sobre a perspectiva de esquerda. Um jornalismo radical, contra-hegemônico e verdadeiramente democrático: é isso o que defendemos.Se você gostou do episódio, não se esquece de nos seguir aqui...
2022-02-121h 23
sofareaderVida e Destino, Vasily Grossman #siberianaryFinalmente acabei a leitura deste lindo calhamaço :)
O incentivo para esta leitura veio da @celiacorreialoureiro
@sofareader
2022-02-0422 min
WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk12 Days of Christmas - Life and FateAl Murray reads chapters 1 through 6 from Life and Fate written by Vasily Grossman, an epic tale of a country told through the fate of a single family, the ShaposhnikovsA Goalhanger Films productionProduced by Vasco AndradeExec Producer: Tony PastorTwitter: #WeHaveWays @WeHaveWaysPodWebsite: www.wehavewayspod.comEmail: wehavewayspodcast@gmail.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
2021-12-3135 min
2021-12-1312 min
The Ezra Klein ShowEconomics Needs to Reckon With What It Doesn’t Know“The world discovered that John Maynard Keynes was right when he declared during World War II that ‘anything we can actually do, we can afford,’” writes Adam Tooze. “Budget constraints don’t seem to exist; money is a mere technicality. The hard limits of financial sustainability, policed, we used to think, by ferocious bond markets, were blurred by the 2008 financial crisis. In 2020, they were erased.”Tooze is an economic historian at Columbia University, co-hosts the podcast “Ones and Tooze,” writes the brilliant Chartbook blog and is the author of “Crashed,” the single best history of the 2008 financial crisis. He’s now out w...
2021-09-171h 15
Sinica PodcastHistorian Adam Tooze on why China’s modern history should matter to AmericansThis week on Sinica, Kaiser chats with the Columbia historian Adam Tooze, who returns to the program a year after his first appearance. A prolific writer and wide-ranging public intellectual, Adam was trained as a Germanist and has focused, in his writings, largely on economic history. His books include The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy, The Deluge: The Great War, America and the Remaking of the Global Order, 1916–1931, and Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crisis Changed the World. In July, Adam published an ambitious essay titled “Why there is no solution to our...
2021-08-191h 02
Quite a Quote!Vasily Grossman: Optimism of peopleThis episode is also available as a blog post: http://quiteaquote.in/2021/01/16/vasily-grossman-optimism-of-people/
2021-07-1900 min
The Long ViewJason Zweig: Temperament Is Everything for Most InvestorsOur guest on the podcast this week is The Wall Street Journal columnist and author Jason Zweig. Jason became a personal finance columnist for The Wall Street Journal in 2008. His weekly column, “The Intelligent Investor,” is a must-read for people inside and outside of the investment industry. Jason is also the editor of the revised edition of Benjamin Graham's The Intelligent Investor. And he is the author of Your Money and Your Brain, which explores the neuroscience of investing. He also wrote the Devil's Financial Dictionary, which is a satirical glossary of Wall Street. Background
2021-06-2955 min
Cosmobrain_podcast#03 I colori della mente"Se prendo il verde non vuol dire che intendo dipingere l’erba e se prendo il blu non significa che dipingerò il cielo. Il colore esprime lo stato d’animo dell’artista” Vasily GrossmanIl colore è una percezione della realtà, ci aiuta a leggere il mondo e a comunicare. Ci esprimiamo attraverso il colore con tante piccole scelte (abbigliamento, auto, la cover dello smartphone!) e anche con il linguaggio. Chi non ha detto una volta “Sono al verde!” o “passato la notte in bianco!” Cosa sono i colori? Come facciamo a vederli? Cosa succede quando c’è un'alterazione della percezione del c
2021-05-0612 min
New Books in European PoliticsM. Haentjens and P. De Gioia-Carabellese, "European Banking and Financial Law" (Routledge, 2020)Even without the loss of the City of London from its jurisdiction, the EU has gone through a decade-long revolution in financial supervision and regulation since Lehman Brothers’ bankruptcy in 2008.The directives and regulations introduced in the wake of the crisis took years to negotiate, implement and stress-test against political reality in the last five years. The second wave of the crisis, which exposed the “doom loop” between fiscally weak states and their pet banks, spawned the European Banking Union but left some crucial remedial work undone.In this update of their 2015 edition of European Banking...
2021-02-1244 min
New Books in FinanceM. Haentjens and P. De Gioia-Carabellese, "European Banking and Financial Law" (Routledge, 2020)Even without the loss of the City of London from its jurisdiction, the EU has gone through a decade-long revolution in financial supervision and regulation since Lehman Brothers’ bankruptcy in 2008.The directives and regulations introduced in the wake of the crisis took years to negotiate, implement and stress-test against political reality in the last five years. The second wave of the crisis, which exposed the “doom loop” between fiscally weak states and their pet banks, spawned the European Banking Union but left some crucial remedial work undone.In this update of their 2015 edition of European Banking...
2021-02-1247 min
The ListenerThe WW2 masterpiece you need to read ᛫ Robert Chandler Podcast: VINTAGE BOOKS (LS 40 · TOP 2% what is this?)Episode: The WW2 masterpiece you need to read ᛫ Robert ChandlerPub date: 2020-08-09Notes from The Listener:Translator of Vasily Grossman's 1952 novel Stalingrad explains the process of excavating a "definitive" text from multiple drafts and censored versions. Originally published as For A Just Cause, this Russian epic is the first of two stories Grossman wrote about Soviet society in World War Two. The second, Life and Fate, has been widely hailed as a masterpiece, but its prequel did not appear in English until this 2019 translation. Que...
2020-09-2525 min
VINTAGE BOOKSThe WW2 masterpiece you need to read ᛫ Robert ChandlerWe talk to the translator of Stalingrad, the Russian Classic that is Vasily Grossman's prequel to Life and Fate ᛫ Follow us on twitter: twitter.com/vintagebooks ᛫ Sign up to our bookish newsletter to hear all about our new releases, see exclusive extracts and win prizes: po.st/vintagenewsletter ᛫ Music is Orbiting A Distant Planet by Quantum Jazz http://po.st/OrbitingADistant ᛫ Read the book: https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/1090800/stalingrad/9780099561361.html Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.
2020-08-0925 min
Mark Leonard's World in 30 MinutesEurope’s role in global health & how to build European health sovereignty“If it’s about Europe´s role in global health, a big part of it is Europe's health sovereignty which we want to make one of the big topics of the German EU Council Presidency”, Germany’s Federal Minister of Health Jens Spahn said in our Virtual Annual Council Meeting. The coronavirus pandemic brought the issue of health sovereignty affront: how can health security be achieved across Europe? In this week’s podcast Mark Leonard is joined by our experts Tara Varma, head of the Paris office, policy fellows Anthony Dworkin and Jonathan Hackenbroich, to discuss the components of European health sove...
2020-07-0325 min
Dive Into An Uplifting Full Audiobook And Elevate Your Mindset.Stalingrad: A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation by Vasily GrossmanPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/398026to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Stalingrad: A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation
Author: Vasily Grossman
Narrator: Full Cast, Mark Bonnar, Greta Scacchi, Ann Mitchell, Kenneth Cranham, Kenneth Branagh
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 5 hours 2 minutes
Release date: June 18, 2020
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.6 of Total 5
Genres: LGBTQ+
Publisher's Summary:
A two-part radio dramatisation of Vasily Grossman's dark, honest account of the battle of Stalingrad; a prequel to Life and Fate – plus Stalingrad: Destiny of a Novel Epic BBC serial Life and Fate stunned radio audiences in 2011, garnering rave reviews for its powerful depiction of a family torn ap...
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Title: Stalingrad: A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation
Author: Vasily Grossman
Narrator: Kenneth Cranham, Ann Mitchell, Greta Scacchi, Mark Bonnar, Full Cast, Kenneth Branagh
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 5 hours 2 minutes
Release date: June 18, 2020
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.6 of Total 5
Genres: Historical
Publisher's Summary:
A two-part radio dramatisation of Vasily Grossman's dark, honest account of the battle of Stalingrad; a prequel to Life and Fate – plus Stalingrad: Destiny of a Novel Epic BBC serial Life and Fate stunned radio audiences in 2011, garnering rave reviews for its powerful depiction of a family torn ap...
2020-06-185h 02Explore the Latest Full Audiobooks in Fiction, LGBTQ+Stalingrad: A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation by Vasily GrossmanPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/398026to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Stalingrad: A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation
Author: Vasily Grossman
Narrator: Full Cast, Mark Bonnar, Greta Scacchi, Ann Mitchell, Kenneth Cranham, Kenneth Branagh
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 5 hours 2 minutes
Release date: June 18, 2020
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.6 of Total 5
Genres: LGBTQ+
Publisher's Summary:
A two-part radio dramatisation of Vasily Grossman's dark, honest account of the battle of Stalingrad; a prequel to Life and Fate – plus Stalingrad: Destiny of a Novel Epic BBC serial Life and Fate stunned radio audiences in 2011, garnering rave reviews for its powerful depiction of a family torn ap...
2020-06-185h 02Download High-Quality Full Audiobooks in Fiction, HistoricalStalingrad: A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation by Vasily GrossmanPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/398026to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Stalingrad: A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation
Author: Vasily Grossman
Narrator: Kenneth Cranham, Ann Mitchell, Greta Scacchi, Mark Bonnar, Full Cast, Kenneth Branagh
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 5 hours 2 minutes
Release date: June 18, 2020
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.6 of Total 5
Genres: Historical
Publisher's Summary:
A two-part radio dramatisation of Vasily Grossman's dark, honest account of the battle of Stalingrad; a prequel to Life and Fate – plus Stalingrad: Destiny of a Novel Epic BBC serial Life and Fate stunned radio audiences in 2011, garnering rave reviews for its powerful depiction of a family torn ap...
2020-06-185h 02
Tune In To Your Ears To A Spellbinding Full Audiobook.Stalingrad by Vasily GrossmanPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/429265to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Stalingrad
Author: Vasily Grossman
Narrator: Elliot Levey
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 37 hours 13 minutes
Release date: May 7, 2020
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2
Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2
Genres: Historical
Publisher's Summary:
Brought to you by Penguin. THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER AND NOW A MAJOR RADIO 4 DRAMA 'One of the great novels of the 20th century, and now published in English for the first time' Observer 'A gripping panorama of the human experience' Kenneth Branagh In April 1942, Hitler and Mussolini plan the huge offensive on the Eastern Front that will...
2020-05-071h 13Embrace The Unforgettable Full Audiobook Experience!Stalingrad by Vasily GrossmanPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/429265to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Stalingrad
Author: Vasily Grossman
Narrator: Elliot Levey
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 37 hours 13 minutes
Release date: May 7, 2020
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2
Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2
Genres: Westerns & War
Publisher's Summary:
Brought to you by Penguin. THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER AND NOW A MAJOR RADIO 4 DRAMA 'One of the great novels of the 20th century, and now published in English for the first time' Observer 'A gripping panorama of the human experience' Kenneth Branagh In April 1942, Hitler and Mussolini plan the huge offensive on the Eastern Front that...
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Title: Stalingrad
Author: Vasily Grossman
Narrator: Elliot Levey
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 37 hours 13 minutes
Release date: May 7, 2020
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2
Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2
Genres: LGBTQ+
Publisher's Summary:
Brought to you by Penguin. THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER AND NOW A MAJOR RADIO 4 DRAMA 'One of the great novels of the 20th century, and now published in English for the first time' Observer 'A gripping panorama of the human experience' Kenneth Branagh In April 1942, Hitler and Mussolini plan the huge offensive on the Eastern Front that will...
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Title: Stalingrad
Author: Vasily Grossman
Narrator: Elliot Levey
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 37 hours 13 minutes
Release date: May 7, 2020
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2
Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2
Genres: LGBTQ+
Publisher's Summary:
Brought to you by Penguin. THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER AND NOW A MAJOR RADIO 4 DRAMA 'One of the great novels of the 20th century, and now published in English for the first time' Observer 'A gripping panorama of the human experience' Kenneth Branagh In April 1942, Hitler and Mussolini plan the huge offensive on the Eastern Front that will...
2020-05-071h 13Listen to Trending Full Audiobooks in Fiction, HistoricalStalingrad by Vasily GrossmanPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/429265to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Stalingrad
Author: Vasily Grossman
Narrator: Elliot Levey
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 37 hours 13 minutes
Release date: May 7, 2020
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2
Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2
Genres: Historical
Publisher's Summary:
Brought to you by Penguin. THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER AND NOW A MAJOR RADIO 4 DRAMA 'One of the great novels of the 20th century, and now published in English for the first time' Observer 'A gripping panorama of the human experience' Kenneth Branagh In April 1942, Hitler and Mussolini plan the huge offensive on the Eastern Front that will...
2020-05-071h 13
Download Best Full Audiobooks in Fiction, Westerns & WarStalingrad by Vasily GrossmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/429265 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Stalingrad Author: Vasily Grossman Narrator: Elliot Levey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 37 hours 13 minutes Release date: May 7, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Westerns & War Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER AND NOW A MAJOR RADIO 4 DRAMA 'One of the great novels of the 20th century, and now published in English for the first time' Observer 'A gripping panorama of the human experience' Kenneth Branagh In April 1942, Hitler and Mussolini plan the huge offensive on the Eastern Front...
2020-05-0705 min
Deep Background with Noah FeldmanWhat to Read During a PandemicMarta Figlerowicz, an associate professor of comparative literature and English at Yale, discusses classic works of literature about pandemics from Boccaccio's The Decameron to Camus' The Plague. Plus, she psychoanalyzes Noah's love of detective novels.Marta Figlerowicz's Pandemic Reading List The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio Stalingrad by Vasily Grossman Everything Flows by Vasily Grossman Molloy by Samuel Beckett Malone Dies by Samuel Beckett Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez The Plague by Albert Camus Occupation Journal by Jean Giono Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comS...
2020-05-0122 min
Leituras de quarentenaFlávio Pinheiro sobre ‘Vida e destino’, de Vasily GrossmanO jornalista Flávio Pinheiro, superintendente executivo do IMS, classifica Vida e destino como um "colosso literário". Não só por suas mais de 900 páginas, mas pelo painel da Segunda Guerra Mundial que o russo Vasily Grossman (1905-1964) faz, combinando jornalismo e ficção potentes. É uma obra anti-stalinista e antifascista e, sobretudo, humanista, diz Pinheiro, que lê trechos marcantes.
2020-03-2606 min
Flávio Pinheiro sobre ‘Vida e destino’, de Vasily Grossman"Vida e destino" é um dos mais potentes livros escritos sobre a Segunda Guerra Mundial. O jornalista Flávio Pinheiro, superintendente executivo do IMS, ressalta que, na sua combinação de jornalismo e ficção, o russo Vasily Grossman (1905-1964) faz uma obra anti-stalinista, antifascista e humanista.
2020-03-2600 min
London Review Bookshop PodcastRobert Chandler and David Herman on Vasily Grossman's StalingradVasily Grossman’s Life and Fate, suppressed by the Soviet authorities in the 1950s but smuggled out of Russia with the help of Andrey Sakharov in the early 1980s, established Grossman’s reputation as a 20th-century Tolstoy, in particular following Robert Chandler’s magnificent 1985 translation into English. Most readers, however, do not realize that it is only the second half of a two-part work, the first half of which was published in 1952 under the title For a Just Cause. Grossman’s original and preferred title was Stalingrad – a title now restored in Chandler’s new translation. The translator writes of it ‘To me, a...
2019-08-1956 minNew Books in Ukrainian StudiesAlexandra Popoff, "Vasily Grossman and the Soviet Century" (Yale UP, 2019)Memory and truth are malleable and nowhere more so than in the Soviet Union. To be a writer in that country was to face an ongoing dilemma: conform to State-mandated topics and themes, or consign oneself to obscurity, writing only for “the desk drawer” or “without permission.”Vasily Grossman challenged that binary choice, creating some of the most compelling and uncompromising fiction and journalism of the century, but also enduring heartbreaking censorship. Her excellent new biography, Vasily Grossman and the Soviet Century (Yale University Press, 2019) brings the life and work of this often-overlooked writer into brilliant focus. Biography...
2019-07-121h 07
Saturday ReviewSupport The Girls, The Hunt at The Almeida, Cut and Paste in Edinburgh, Grossman's StalingradAmerican indie film Support The Girls is set in a sports bar in America where the manager's day just keeps getting worse
The Hunt stared life as a multi award winning Danish film. Its been adapted for the stage at The Almeida Theatre in London
Cut and Paste; 400 Years of Collage in Edinburgh explores the sticky multi-shaped world of collage
Vasily Grossman's novel Stalingrad was his successor to Life and Fate. The first translation into English is eagerly awaited.Tom Sutcliffe's guests are Viv Groskop, Briony Hanson and Cahal Dallat. The producers are Oliver Jones and Hilary...
2019-06-2952 min
The TLS PodcastRussian greats and fictional eatsA "new" ending to a Nabokov novel and the unregarded first volume of Vasily Grossman's epic, the "Soviet War and Peace"; Rebecca Reich guides us through these and the question of whether the West is paranoid about Russia or vice versa; Laura Freeman joins us to talk about dinner with the Durrells and pond life sandwiches.BooksStalingrad: A novel by Vasily GrossmanVasily Grossman and the Soviet Century by Alexandra PopoffPlots against Russia by Eliot BorensteinThe Russia Anxiety by Mark B. Smith
2019-06-1342 min
Absorb Your Ears To A Captivating Full Audiobook.Vasily Grossman and the Soviet Century by Alexandra PopoffPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/28909to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Vasily Grossman and the Soviet Century
Author: Alexandra Popoff
Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki
Format: mp3
Length: 15 hrs and 44 mins
Release date: 03-26-19
Ratings: 4.5 out of 5 stars, 65 ratings
Genres: Russia
Publisher's Summary:
If Vasily Grossman's 1961 masterpiece, Life and Fate, had been published during his lifetime, it would have reached the world together with Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago and before Solzhenitsyn's Gulag. But Life and Fate was seized by the Russian KGB. When it emerged posthumously, decades later, it was recognized as the War and Peace of the 20th century.
2019-03-263h 44
Manifesto!Episode 7: Patriotism and the Unknown SoldierJake and Phil discuss Alasdair MacIntyre's "Is Patriotism a Virtue?" and the story of the November 11, 1921 burial of the Unknown Soldier, as told by Jonathan Ebel in his book GI Messiahs
Works referred to in this episode:
Alasdair MacIntyre, “Is Patriotism A Virtue”
https://kuscholarworks.ku.edu/bitstream/handle/1808/12398/Is%20Patriotism%20a%20Virtue-1984.pdf
Abu Bakr ibn Tufayl, Hayy ibn Yaqzan
http://www.marcresource.org/ibn-tufayls-hayy-ibn-yaqzan/
Peter Singer, “The Drowning Child and the Expanding Circle”
https://www.utilitarian.net/singer/by/199704--.htm
Bernard Williams, “A Critique o...
2018-09-101h 39Saturday ReviewAnon, Life and Fate, Patrick Melrose, Jesmyn Ward: Sing Unburied Sing, Asterix at London's Jewish MuseumIs a world without crime a utopia or a dystopia if the price is total constant surveillance by the state? British thriller Anon is set in a world where wanting to be anonymous makes you the subject of society's suspicions. It stars Clive Owen as a detective investigating gruesome murders.
Russian theatre director Lev Dodin's production of Vasily Grossman's novel Life and Fate comes to the UK for a very limited run
Benedict Cumberbatch stars in David Nicholl's adaptation of the Patrick Melrose stories for Sky Atlantic.
Jesmyn Ward's novel Sing Unburied Sing was one of Barack Obama's best...
2018-05-1248 min
Russian RouletteOf Reading Russia—And Our Mail - Russian Roulette Episode 56 In this episode of Russian Roulette, Olya and Jeff answer the mail! (yes, it has been too long without a mailbag). Then, Olya sits down with Michael Kimmage, a professor of history at Catholic University who from 2014-2016 held the Russia/Ukraine portfolio on the Policy Planning Staff at the U.S. Department of State. They discuss Russian literature: the essential works (including those less known in the West); how literature expands and complicates America’s understanding of Russia (and vice versa); film, animation, and Russian normalcy; the role of books and prose in Russian politics and society; and wh...
2018-04-2448 minRussian RouletteOf Reading Russia—And Our Mail - Russian Roulette Episode 56 In this episode of Russian Roulette, Olya and Jeff answer the mail! (yes, it has been too long without a mailbag). Then, Olya sits down with Michael Kimmage, a professor of history at Catholic University who from 2014-2016 held the Russia/Ukraine portfolio on the Policy Planning Staff at the U.S. Department of State. They discuss Russian literature: the essential works (including those less known in the West); how literature expands and complicates America’s understanding of Russia (and vice versa); film, animation, and Russian normalcy; the role of books and prose in Russian politics and society; and wh...
2018-04-2448 min
Reading GlassesEp 23 - There's a Pencil Stuck in My Nose and Other Middle Grade Issues and a Colin Meloy Interview!This episode, Brea and Mallory discuss middle grade books, and interview author and musician Colin Meloy. Use the hashtag #ReadingGlasses to participate in online discussion! Send your thoughts to readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com! Reading Glasses Tote Bags - https://topatoco.com/collections/maximum-fun/products/maxf-rg-dnd-tote Links - Reading Glasses Transcriptions on Gretta https://gretta.com/1246042223/ Reading Glasses Facebook Group https://www.facebook.com/groups/259287784548200/?ref=bookmarks Reading Glasses Goodreads Group https://www.goodreads.com/gro...
2017-11-0930 min
BacklistedA Month in the Country by J.L. CarrIn the first episode of a new podcast about books, John Mitchinson and Andy Miller are joined by novelist Lissa Evans and Unbound's Mathew Clayton discuss JL Carr's 'A Month in the Country'. Timings: (may differ due to adverts) 1'58 - Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman19'03 - A Cotswold Village by J Arthur Gibbs29'30 - A Month in the Country by J L Carr * To purchase any of the books mentioned in this episode please visit our bookshop at uk.b...
2015-11-3045 min
London Review Bookshop PodcastEverything Flows: A Celebration of Vasily GrossmanVasily Grossman, now widely regarded as the greatest Russian novelist of the 20th century, died 50 years ago this month. The author of the remarkable Everything Flows and Life and Fate (the only manuscript ever to be itself arrested by the Soviet authorities), Grossman was a crucial witness to the multiple horrors of the period. He did not live to see his greatest books published. This was a unique evening of readings and discussion: Robert Chandler, Grossman’s finest translator, reported back from the first Grossman conference in Russia; historian Antony Beevor and journalist John Lloyd provided commentary; and Janet Suzman ga...
2014-09-171h 13
Embark On The Ground-Breaking Full Audiobook Experience!Vasily Grossman From The Front Line by Vasily GrossmanPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/395599to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Vasily Grossman From The Front Line
Author: Vasily Grossman
Narrator: Elliot Levey
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 0 hours 40 minutes
Release date: July 1, 2012
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1
Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1
Genres: Arts & Entertainment
Publisher's Summary:
Vasily Grossman, author of Life and Fate, was transformed by his experiences as a war correspondent. Following the shock invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941, Grossman volunteered for front line duty. Declared unfit for active service he was assigned to Red Star newspaper as a special correspondent. In these BBC Radio...
2012-07-0140 min
Grab the Top Full Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, Arts & EntertainmentVasily Grossman From The Front Line by Vasily GrossmanPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/395599 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Vasily Grossman From The Front Line Author: Vasily Grossman Narrator: Elliot Levey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 40 minutes Release date: July 1, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Vasily Grossman, author of Life and Fate, was transformed by his experiences as a war correspondent. Following the shock invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941, Grossman volunteered for front line duty. Declared unfit for active service he was assigned to Red Star newspaper as a special correspondent. In these BBC...
2012-07-0103 minGrab the Top Full Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, Arts & EntertainmentVasily Grossman From The Front Line by Vasily GrossmanPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/395599to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Vasily Grossman From The Front Line
Author: Vasily Grossman
Narrator: Elliot Levey
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 0 hours 40 minutes
Release date: July 1, 2012
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1
Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1
Genres: Arts & Entertainment
Publisher's Summary:
Vasily Grossman, author of Life and Fate, was transformed by his experiences as a war correspondent. Following the shock invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941, Grossman volunteered for front line duty. Declared unfit for active service he was assigned to Red Star newspaper as a special correspondent. In these BBC Radio...
2012-07-0140 min
Embark On A Unforgettable Full Audiobook On Your Commute.Life and Fate: The Complete Series (Dramatised) by Vasily GrossmanPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/84276to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Life and Fate: The Complete Series (Dramatised)
Author: Vasily Grossman
Narrator: Kenneth Branagh, David Tennant, Raquel Cassidy, Greta Scacchi, Adrian Scarborough, Alex Tregear, full cast
Format: mp3
Length: 7 hrs and 35 mins
Release date: 10-13-11
Ratings: 4 out of 5 stars, 278 ratings
Genres: Radio
Publisher's Summary:
2011-10-137h 35