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Episode 1. Landscapes. Parte Two. The Kalmyk Steppe


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Voices from Stalingrad. Podcast. Episode 1 Landscapes. Part Two.
The Kalmyk Steppe.

The Volga is not the only natural landscape in the story. Around Stalingrad, there are the Kalmyk Steppe and the desolate Caspian region. The landscapes in Grossman’s two novels are not mere backdrops; they are also active characters. The Volga, with its eternal rhythm, which repeats every day undisturbed, accompanies the life and death of humans. The Kalmyk Steppe, glabrous, monotonous, and arid—precisely because it is empty—speaks to man of the essence of things


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