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A School for Fools with José Vergara
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Length:
58 minutes
Released:
Apr 18, 2023
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Podcast episode
Description
Scholar José Vergara joins the show to talk about A School for Fools written by Sasha Sokolov and translated from Russian by Alexander Boguslawski. Enroll in a fabulous world where the dead are alive, language changes forms, minds split, and love flowers.
Read our guest's article on A School for Fools here and more about his work here.
References:All Future Plunges to the PastJames JoyceJ. D. SalingerBetween Dog and WolfAstrophobiaMartina NapolitanoStalingrad by Vasily GrossmanVasily AksyonovAndrei BitovNikolai GogolAlexander PushkinMikhail ShishkinRaul RuizSergei Rachmaninoff Edgar Allan PoeUlyssesThe Twilight ZoneChuck-will's-widowIvan the fool
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Read our guest's article on A School for Fools here and more about his work here.
References:All Future Plunges to the PastJames JoyceJ. D. SalingerBetween Dog and WolfAstrophobiaMartina NapolitanoStalingrad by Vasily GrossmanVasily AksyonovAndrei BitovNikolai GogolAlexander PushkinMikhail ShishkinRaul RuizSergei Rachmaninoff Edgar Allan PoeUlyssesThe Twilight ZoneChuck-will's-widowIvan the fool
To purchase books covered on the show, please visit our digital bookshop. Buying them here helps to support the podcast.
Released:
Apr 18, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
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