Vasily Grossman: Zhilitsa - some remarkable word play

[Laura Kline]

How about this:

Whose turn is it to deal?
It's the turn of the person who was left at the end of the last round.

If you use the word "turn" to translate "turn the paper in" in the previous
section, it would be tied to this passage with "Whose turn..."
And saying "who was left" instead of "who lost" reflects a bit of the
"ostalsya v zhivykh."


"Whose deal?"

"Whoever lost the last round.  And they can deal with that document too."

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