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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 Shot by Pushkin

Major themes: Psychological Duels, Byronic Subversions, and Cherry Pits

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