The Street of Crocodiles by Bruno Schulz
Major themes: Torturing matter, Doomed eroticism, Unfinished modernity
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Devil's Yard by Ivo Andrić
Major themes: Narrative confusion, Residue of truth, The eyes have it
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Life and Fate (Part 3, Chs. 49-61) by Grossman
Major themes: Bureaucracy, Stalingrad, the meaning of Life and Fate
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Aelita (1924) by Protazanov
Major themes: Is popular media art?, Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Missing Sugar
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Office Hours - Answering r/Dostoevsky's hottest questions
Major themes: Pierre winky face, Dostoevsky and atheists, Laurus
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Life and Fate (Part 2 Chs. 51-62, Part 3 chs. 1-18) by Grossman
Major themes: Madonna and babe, redemptive humanism, gossip
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The Body of the Soul by Ulitskaya
Major themes: Death, dogs, the essential immortality of the soul
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Office Hours - Ranking our best episodes
Major themes: reflection, tier lists, angry listener feedback
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Life and Fate (Part 2, Chs. 21-50) by Grossman
Major themes: Why fight wars, no step on snake, not the purge exactly
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Work Flows: Stalinist Liquids in Russian Labor Culture (w/ author Dr. Maya Vinokour)
Major themes: Flow, cosmic symbology, energy reserves
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Life and Fate (p.1 chs. 61-70, p.2 chs. 1-20) by Grossman
Major themes: Provocative moral questions, totalitarian ideology, World War 2 worship
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Light Breathing by Bunin
Major themes: Philosopher ships, respecting tomes, the emigree Gorky
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