Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman The title of this book almost reads like a mathematical equation that hasn’t quite found it’s ultimate expression. With a few more elements mysteriously conjoined it might give us the result that every human being desires: (Life x Fate)+will+morality+love – the State = freedom. To emphasize this essential longing in every human it can be no accident that in the opening scene we find ourselves approaching a monstrous prison camp. Then the fence of the camp appeared out of the mist: endless lines of
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