About this episode
Show 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 Life and Fate Read Along (available wherever you already listen to The Slavic Literature Pod).
Major themes: Rehumanizing routine, totalizing systems and their believers, GrossmanGPT
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.
Buy this book with our affiliate links on Bookshop or Amazon!
Our links: Website | Discord
Socials: Instagram | BlueSky | Twitter | Facebook
Questions, comments, want to hear your voice on a bonus episode? Send us an email at [email protected] or call our voicemail at 209.800.3944
Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands
Get every episode summarized
Each time The Slavic Literature Pod publishes, we email you a written briefing from the transcript — the topics, who appeared, and any specific claims, with the ad reads skipped.
Email me new episodesFree for 3 shows. No card needed.
Hosts & guests
No transcript yet
This episode has not been transcribed. Request it and it moves to the front of the queue.
More episodes
More from The Slavic Literature Pod
Mosquito by Akhmet Baitursynov (with translator Jake Zawlacki)
The Slavic Literature Pod
Sofia Petrova by Lydia Chukovskaya
The Slavic Literature Pod
For Your Consideration: John Williams' Butcher's Crossing (and why I don't think...
The Slavic Literature Pod
The Last Letter (2002) by Frederick Wiseman + What Vasily Grossman and Life & Fa...
The Slavic Literature Pod