Kevin McKenna on Characters, Plot, and Themes of In the First Circle

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🗓️ 18 October 2018

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Russian Literature Professor Kevin McKenna of the University of Vermont talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the characters, plot, and themes of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's masterpiece, In the First Circle. This is the second episode of the EconTalk book club discussing the book. The first episode--a discussion of Solzhenitsyn's life and times--is available on EconTalk.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Econ Talk, part of the Library of Economics and Liberty.
0:08.0	I'm your host, Russ Roberts, of Stanford University's Hoover Institution.
0:12.6	Our website is econtalk.org where you can subscribe, comment on this podcast, and find
0:17.6	links and other information related to today's conversation.
0:20.5	We'll also find our archives where you can listen to every episode we've ever done going
0:24.8	back to 2006.
0:27.0	Our email address is mailadycontalk.org.
0:29.5	We'd love to hear from you.
0:33.8	Today is September 6, 2018, and this is a bonus edition of econtalk, part two of our book
0:38.9	club reading in the first circle, the first uncensored edition by Alexander Solshnitsyn,
0:45.1	with University of Vermont, Professor of Russian Language, Literature and Culture, Kevin
0:49.0	McKenna.
0:50.0	Kevin, welcome back to econtalk.
0:51.5	Yes, thank you very much.
0:53.4	Our first episode, we talked about Solshnitsyn's life and the political and social climate he
0:57.9	lived through.
1:00.0	Today we're going to turn to the book itself.
1:01.5	I want to let listeners know you can talk about the book with your fellow readers and
1:04.8	listeners on Facebook and on the econtalk subreddit we've created.
1:09.3	We will have links to those opportunities posted on the page for this bonus edition.
1:13.5	I also want to say there probably be some spoilers in our conversation today.
1:18.4	You might want to wait till you finish the book before listening and having said that.
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