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Stepson of the time.(Reconsiderations)(Vasily Grossman's Life and Fate)(Critical essay)
New Criterion, March, 2007 by Weiss, Michael
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This could be Arthur Koestler apostrophizing the condemned Rubashov in his novel Darkness at Noon (1940):
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There is nothing more difficult than to be a stepson of the time; there is no heavier fate than to live in an age that is not your own. Stepsons of the time are easily recognized: in personnel departments, Party district committees, army political sections, editorial offices, and on the street. Time loves only those it has given birth to itself: its own children, it own heroes, it own labourers. Never can it come to love the children of a past ...Read the rest of this article with a Free Trial at HighBeam Research.
