In which one of the 1980 Iranian hostages explains why “War and Peace” meant so much to him at the time.
Tag Archives: Life and Fate
An Iranian Hostage Recalls Tolstoy
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Emma, George Eliot, Homer, Iliad, Iranian hostage crisis, Jane Austen, Leo Tolstoy, Middlemarch, Pride and Prejudice, Vasily Grossman, War and Peace Comments closed
Apocalyptic Fire Ravages the Nation
For literary equivalents of the west coast fires, look to “The Aeneid” and to Vasily Grossman’s “Life and Fate.”
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Aeneid, California wildfires, climate change, extreme weather, Oregon wildfires, Vasily Grossman, Virgil Comments closed
Exposing Stalin-Style Fake News
Monday NeverTrumper Jennifer Rubin made a Stalin allusion on MSNBC’s A. M. Joy yesterday that caught my eye because I am currently reading a novel about Stalin’s Soviet Union during the German invasion. Vasily Grossman’s extraordinary Life and Fate (1960), resembles Tolstoy’s War and Peace in the way it captures the country at a moment […]
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged fake news, Fox News, Jim Jordan, Joseph Stalin, Ukraine's forced famine of 1932, Vasily Grossman, World War II Comments closed
