Song of the Final Meeting, Lot's Wife, and Requiem by Akhmatova
Major themes: The Great Terror, Translations, The Eyes Have It
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The Cow & The Third Son by Platonov
Major themes: Animals As People, Naturalistic Communism, Denouncements
View episodeHow Much Land Does a Man Need? By Tolstoy
Major themes: Koumiss, Skaz, Oddly aggressive conversation between siblings
View episodeFathers and Children p.2 by Turgenev
Major themes: Feeling bad about not calling our parents more often, self-deceiving characters, the collision of ideology and human emotion.
View episodeFathers and Children p.1 by Turgenev
Major themes: Frogs, Nihilism, Bazarov is a NEET prove me wrong.
View episodeNotes from Underground (w/ Dr. Kaitlin Shirley)
Major themes: Toothache, Poor Liza, An Unquenchable Thirst to be a Dick.
View episodeThe Overcoat by Nikolai Gogol
Major themes: Petersburg winter, German beaver pelt, unconfirmed foot fetish
View episodeTwenty-Six Men and a Girl by Maxim Gorky
Major themes: the alienation of labor, idealization/fetishization, pretzels.
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Kolyma Tales by Varlam Shalamov
Major themes: gulags, carnivorousness, latent classicism, guerilla warfare.
View episodeSankya p.2 by Zakhar Prilepin
Major themes: fatherlessness, arson, murderous intent, National Bolshevism
View episodeSankya p.1 by Zakhar Prilepin
This week, Matt and Cameron will be reading the first half of Sankya by Zakhar Prilepin.
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