The Slavic Literature Pod

The Slavic Literature Pod is your guide to the literary traditions in and around the Slavic world. On each episode, Cameron Lallana sits down with scholars, translators and other experts to dive deep into big books, short stories, film, and everything in between. You’ll get an approachable introduction to the scholarship and big ideas surrounding these canons roughly two Fridays per month.

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  For Your Consideration: John Williams' Butcher's Crossing (and why I don't think we should compare it to Blood Meridian)

  Jun 12, 20261h 23mS0

  <p>Show Notes:</p><p>This week, on For Your Consideration, Cameron dives into John Williams' 1960 novel, Butcher's Crossing, a cautionary tale about how reading Ralph Waldo Emerson can drive you into buffalo-murdering madness.</p><p>It's not uncommon to see the novel compared to Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian, or The Evening Redness in the West, but after reading both...he's skeptical. It seems that they don't share much more than a genre. </p><p>This episode has a two-fold purpose: 1) To cover Butcher's Crossing's adept take on the Western and 2) Why we should all be more skeptical about the...

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  The Last Letter (2002) by Frederick Wiseman + What Vasily Grossman and Life & Fate mean today

  May 3, 20261h 36mS0

  <p>Show Notes:</p><p><br></p><p>This week, Cameron dives into Frederick Wiseman’s 2002 film “The Last Letter,” a dramatization of one chapter of Vasily Grossman’s Life and Fate: the final letter Anna Semionova writes her son, Viktor Shtrum, from a Jewish ghetto.</p><p><br></p><p>We’ll get into how Wiseman adapts this troubling, poignant chapter into film, why I think this chapter is the best encapsulation of Grossman’s ideas in Life and Fate, and some thoughts on why he remains so provocative today. </p><p><br></p><p>Quick note: At one point in this...

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  PREP WORK: The Last Letter (2002) by Frederick Wiseman

  Apr 3, 202651 minS0

  <p>Show Notes:</p><p>This week, you and Cameron get into some PREP WORK for an upcoming episode about Frederick Wiseman’s 2002 film “The Last Letter,” which dramatizes a chapter of Vassily Grossman’s Life and Fate. </p><p><br></p><p>In preparation for that episode, we’ll read that dramatized chapter — Part 1, Chapter 18, Anna Semyonova’s final letter to her son, Viktor Shtrum — along with two other letters Grossman wrote to his mother after her death. </p><p><br></p><p>The music used in this episode was “Старое Кино / Staroye Kino,” by Перемотка / Peremotka. You can find more of their work on Bandcamp and Youtube. </p><...

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  A School for Fools by Sasha Sokolov (w/ Dr. José Vergara)

  Mar 20, 20261h 6mS0

  <p>Show Notes:</p><p><br></p><p>This week, Dr. José Vergara returns to the podcast to talk about Sasha Sokolov’s A School for Fools. The novel, first published in English in 1977, follows student so-and-so (and his double) as he attempts to tell events of his life. The novel doesn’t follow a linear plot — or even an easy-to-distinguish narrator — and puts you on your toes as you meander between stories.</p><p><br></p><p>Dr. Vergara is an associate professor of Russian in the Bryn Mawr College’s Department of Russian. He is the author of All Future...

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  Chevengur by Andrei Platonov, Chapters 25-43

  Mar 6, 20261h 45mS0

  <p>Show Notes:</p><p><br></p><p>This week, Cameron takes on the back half of Andrei Platonov’s Chevengur, covering chapters 25-43. As our characters finally arrive in the town of Chevengur, we go from a picaresque romp around the newly-Soviet countryside into the dirty work of actually building Communism. </p><p><br></p><p>“Danger and Deliverance: Reading Andrei Platonov” by Angela Livingstone</p><p><br></p><p>“Chevengur: On the Road with Bolshevik Utopia” by David Bethea in The Shape of Apocalypse in Modern Russian Fiction</p><p><br></p><p>“Chevengur: Buried in the Family Plot” by Elio...

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