Status Updates From Life and Fate

1/3

Hard to follow largely due to Russian names.

in this section Grossman feels at once heavy handed and somewhat directionless and it is hard to discern if this is subtlety of skill or not. again the external narrative of the dissident writer overtakes the actual text in places - how to read an SS officer's "we're not so different" speech to an old and still committed bolshevik if not as some small indictment of the very idea?