Vasily Grossman · 2010
A collection of shorter writings and stories depicting life and conflict in the Soviet Union.
Russ Roberts recommends it for readers who might find the massive epic of Life and Fate intimidating.
A speaker recommends a book written by someone else.
“The Road is a short story of Grossman's, and it's the title as well of an edited volume that you did of his shorter writings.”
Why: Recommended for readers who might find the massive epic of Life and Fate intimidating.
Russ Roberts, Host on EconTalkTranslating Life and Fate (with Robert Chandler)
Named without an opinion attached.
“They're in the back of a collection of Grossmans we're going to talk about in a future episode called The Road, and they're deeply moving.”
Tyler Cowen, Guest on Conversations with TylerRuss Roberts on Vasily Grossman's Life and Fate
“They're in the back of a collection of Grossmans we're going to talk about in a future episode called The Road.”
Tyler Cowen, Guest on EconTalkTyler Cowen on Life and Fate
Other books cited in the same episodes.
Life and Fate
Vasily Grossman
Discussed together in: Translating Life and Fate (with Robert Chandler) (EconTalk) and 2 more episodes
The Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Discussed together in: Translating Life and Fate (with Robert Chandler) (EconTalk) and 2 more episodes
Stalingrad
Vasily Grossman
Discussed together in: Translating Life and Fate (with Robert Chandler) (EconTalk) and 1 more episode
The Gulag Archipelago
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Discussed together in: Translating Life and Fate (with Robert Chandler) (EconTalk)
Everything Flows
Vasily Grossman
Discussed together in: Translating Life and Fate (with Robert Chandler) (EconTalk)
The First Circle
Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
Discussed together in: Translating Life and Fate (with Robert Chandler) (EconTalk)
War and Peace
Leo Tolstoy
Discussed together in: Russ Roberts on Vasily Grossman's Life and Fate (Conversations with Tyler) and 2 more episodes
Sakhalin Island
Anton Chekhov
Discussed together in: Tyler Cowen on Life and Fate (EconTalk) and 1 more episode