Looking to Fiction to Explain Current Events, Politics, the Human Condition
Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, Macbeth, King Lear...
There are decades when nothing happens, and weeks when decades happen, Soviet founder Vladimir Lenin allegedly said. Earth-shaking events in July 2024 prove this truth, rising to the level of legend or mythology, with big novelistic themes. Literary explorations of politics can offer insights into current events. To fully grasp the human condition in th…
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