Discourses of Violence

[Robert Chandler]

A direct answer would be very interesting to many of us.  I shall be
discussing this argument with my students when we read Babel and Platonov
later this term!

Best Wishes,

Robert

> Rima,  ogromnoe spasibo za podderzhku! Kak vy ponimaete, ia grubo peredernut.
> Stoit li mne na eto otvetit' priamo?
> 
> Vash mark
> 
> 
> Quoting Rimgaila Salys <Salys at buffmail.Colorado.EDU>:
> 
>> It seems to me that Babel's depiction of the cossacks in Red Cavalry is
>> perfectly consistent with Girardian theories of ritualized violence in
>> society.  I've noticed that many people who have lived through/escaped
>> Stalinism or even its gentler successors are very resistant to myth criticism
>> as a way of approaching the Soviet era, and here one has to agree to
>> disagree.
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