Life and Fate
Vasily Grossman · first published 1980
Mentioned 14 time(s) by 7 guest(s): 4 recommend.
Dan Houser on Lex Fridman Podcast (2025-10-31): recommend
“…I love the bit in Life and Fate when you get…”
Dan Houser: GTA, Red Dead Redemption, Rockstar, Absurd & Future of Gaming | Lex Fridman Podcast #484
Dan Houser on Lex Fridman Podcast (2025-10-31): recommend
“…because it is this all of life being there, probably is Life and Fate.…”
Dan Houser: GTA, Red Dead Redemption, Rockstar, Absurd & Future of Gaming | Lex Fridman Podcast #484
Douglas Murray on Lex Fridman Podcast (2025-03-31): mention
“…But there's this passage in Life and Faith that I quote in my book, which is I just bowled me over…”
Douglas Murray: Putin, Zelenskyy, Trump, Israel, Netanyahu, Hamas & Gaza | Lex Fridman Podcast #463
Stephen Kotkin on Conversations with Tyler (2024-12-04): recommend
“…I don’t have that deep and rich feel for the place that I would only develop later on by reading Life and Fate and much else…”
Stephen Kotkin on Stalin, Power, and the Art of Biography (Ep. 228)
Robert Chandler on EconTalk (2024-12-02): mention
“…I see it as a mini Life and Fate that Grossman is trying to compensate…”
Robert Chandler on EconTalk (2024-12-02): mention
“…So, in Life and Fate, when Shtrum, after he's been sort of blessed by Stalin…”
Robert Chandler on EconTalk (2024-12-02): mention
“…the very first chapter of Life and Fate I translated was the dialogue between the SS officer…”
Robert Chandler on EconTalk (2024-12-02): mention
“…Life and Fate is--it's more distant from the reality of the time.…”
Robert Chandler on EconTalk (2024-12-02): mention
“…Life and Fate was a rather odd story.…”
Tyler Cowen on EconTalk (2024-11-25): recommend
“…For me to read an 872-page book twice in a row and be glad I did it, there's no higher endorsement I can give to a novel than that.…”
Tyler Cowen on EconTalk (2024-11-25): recommend
“…So, the title itself, Life and Fate--it is about life and fate.…”
Russ Roberts on Conversations with Tyler (2024-11-25): mention
“…Our topic for today is Vasily Grossman’s masterpiece, Life and Fate.…”
Russ Roberts on Vasily Grossman’s Life and Fate (Ep. 227 - BONUS)
Russ Roberts on Conversations with Tyler (2024-11-25): recommend
“…But this book will haunt me. Part of it's because I'm reading it recently.…”
Russ Roberts on Vasily Grossman’s Life and Fate (Ep. 227 - BONUS)
John Ralston Saul on EconTalk (2013-11-04): mention
“…I just read recently Vasily Grossman's Life and Fate.…”
John Ralston Saul on Reason, Elites, and Voltaire's Bastards