Life and Fate with Robert Chandler

Unburied Books by Dylan Cuellar, Kassia Oset

Jan 21, 202601:01:11Arts

Translator Robert Chandler joins us to discuss his journey with Vasily Grossman, Stalingrad versus Life and Fate , and Grossman's representation of totalitarianism.

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