444 Thrillers on the Eve of War - Spy Novels in the 1930s (with Juliette Bretan)
The History of Literature
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Is the Professor Worth It?
I think it's not so much against Stalinism. I think it's just generally against that idea, the idea of believing in political belief system as being something that could subsume the individual in a very negative way. There's no sense of completion with these texts, they're more about, you know, this is only temporary, we're going to face struggles to come. And then in the professor, it's the sense of, actually, is it worth it? Yeah.
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