Malaporte & Grossman Panel Discussion. NSSR October 29, 2009

Curzio Malaparte and Vasily Grossman were writers and journalists who covered the Eastern Front during the Second World War and wrote vividly about its ravages, though from different ideological perspectives. This public program, which marks the tenth anniversary of New York Review of Books Classics and follows on the heels of another symposium on literary reportage sponsored by the New York Institute for Humanities and New York Review of Books Classics, addresses the authors’ work as it relates to literature of witness, reportage, and war and atrocity. A portion of Frederick Wiseman’s film La Dernière Lettre, based on Grossman’s work, will be shown.

Participants include Frederick Wiseman, Boston-based documentary filmmaker who adapted a segment of Grossman’s Life and Fate into a dramatic performance and later a 62-minute film, La Dernière Lettre; Keith Gessen, writer and editor of N+1; Walter Murch, translator of Malaparte and film and sound editor; and Timothy Snyder, historian at Yale University.

This event is co-sponsored by the Transregional Center for Democratic Studies, the New York Institute for the Humanities at NYU, and New York Review of Books Classics.

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