Robert Chandler Talks Stalingrad and Translation
This week, Matt and Cameron sit down with Robert Chandler, a prolific translator of many authors including our own beloved Grossman.
The Sistine Madonna by Grossman
Major themes: Non-religious Christianity, Aesthetic anti-Sovietism, Eternal Beauty
Stalingrad p.10 by Grossman
Major themes: Motherhood, the soldier as adolescent, the spirit of the worker at war
Stalingrad p.9 by Grossman
Major themes: Byzantium Marxism and Postmodernism Oh My!, Political alienation, The Gros-Cast
Stalingrad p.8 by Grossman
Major themes: Labyrinth of plots but make it depressing, Defamiliarization in art, The Origin of Tomatoes