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🗓️ 29 June 2020
⏱️ 64 minutes
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0:00.0 | The History of Literature Podcast is a member of the Podglamorate Network and LIT Hub Radio. |
0:07.0 | Hello, I'm Jack Wilson. |
0:11.0 | Welcome to The History of June. My goodness, where does the time go, even |
0:37.5 | when we're holed up in the basement? Stuck in the Jack Wilson studio buried deep underground. The time just zips by. It's almost the end of the month, which means it's almost time for the little |
0:51.0 | Patreon only content that should go up soon for all you |
0:54.4 | patreon subscribers over there at patreon.com slash literature. We have a great show |
1:00.0 | today we're taking a look at an amazing story Dr. |
1:03.3 | Gervago by Boris Pasternak, one of Russia's greatest poets, one of its great historical |
1:09.7 | figures, one of its Cold War heroes, a great lover, a brave writer, a punished writer, taking on a regime. |
1:20.0 | And one of those times when writers are front and center on the world stage, often they are not. |
1:26.0 | Often poets and novelists are ignored. Who cares? Nobody reads. |
1:32.0 | That's what I imagine world leaders saying. Like that quote that's attributed to Napoleon. |
1:39.0 | Ah, the Pope, how many armies does he have? He objects. How many armies does he have? That's what I imagine |
1:47.5 | world leader saying about writers sometimes. A non-fiction book, maybe we'll try to block that. |
1:54.0 | A book by an insider, a relative, a former aide, that might be embarrassing or reveal some secrets, |
2:01.0 | but a novel? Eh, who cares? |
2:05.8 | That's how things are some of the time in history. |
2:08.6 | Other times in history at other moments, poets, |
2:10.7 | and novelists and filmmakers are extremely important. |
2:15.0 | Viewed as dangerous. |
2:17.0 | So dangerous they might be censored, they might be locked up, |
2:21.0 | they might be exiled or imprisoned. |
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