{"id":256936,"date":"2007-10-18T14:24:51","date_gmt":"2007-10-18T14:24:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2007\/10\/18\/lrb-on-life-and-fate\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T17:36:17","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T17:36:17","slug":"lrb-on-life-and-fate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2007\/10\/18\/lrb-on-life-and-fate\/","title":{"rendered":"LRB on Life and Fate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <span class=\"caps\">LRB<\/span> has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lrb.co.uk\/v29\/n20\/lanc01_.html\">review<\/a> of Vasily Grossman&#8217;s <em>Life and Fate<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Vasily Grossman\u2019s masterpiece Life and Fate is fascinating for many reasons, and one of them is the way in that it is both a pastiche and a personal statement; a conscious, cold-blooded attempt to sum up everything Grossman knew about the Great Patriotic War, and at the same time to rewrite War and Peace. Tolstoy\u2019s novel was the only book Grossman read during the war, and he read it twice; War and Peace hangs over Grossman\u2019s book as a template and a lodestar, and the measure of Grossman\u2019s achievement is that a comparison between the two books is not grotesque.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The LRB has a review of Vasily Grossman&#8217;s Life and Fate: Vasily Grossman\u2019s masterpiece Life and Fate is fascinating for many reasons, and one of them is the way in that it is both a pastiche and a personal statement; a conscious, cold-blooded attempt to sum up everything Grossman knew about the Great Patriotic War, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67486],"tags":[2136,7216,1646,7206],"class_list":["post-256936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-ejvl","tag-lrb","tag-review","tag-vasily-grossman"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256936"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":327926,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256936\/revisions\/327926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}