Game Plan for the Book Club on selections from the book “The Road” by Author Vasily Grossman
Here is the Game Plan for the Book Club on selections from
the book “The Road” by Author Vasily Grossman.
We will plan to Read and “Discuss” just two essay’s and if someone wants to suggest another we can have a go at that…
The schedule of instigation…
Essay Reading 1: “The Hell of Treblinka” pages 116 – 162.
Instigator: Eric
Date of Instigation: 2/16/25
Essay Reading 2: “The Sistine Madonna” pages 163 – 174.
Instigator: TBD
Date of Instigation: 3/2/25
Essay Reading 3: If someone wants to recommend a 3rd Essay in the book we will read that!
Instigator: TBD
Date of Instigation: 3/16/25
On the Date of Instigation, we will shoot a note out once the instigator has posted her/his instigation and everyone can respond with their thoughts and comments.
For now please post a comment on this post to make sure you can post okay AND to confirm you are planning to read and participate. J
3 comments:
Excited to read the first essay and see what everyone has to say.
Looking forward to it!!
Hello! Eric is the first instigator, but I thought I would throw a few things out. This was a very engrossing and disturbing essay about a concentration camp I had never heard of. Mr. Grossman drew a very vivid description of the camp and its mechanisms for mass extermination that evolved into the gas chambers and cremation. Particularly horrifying was the process that the condemned went through to be stripped of their humanity and humiliated and brutalized before being gassed. I was glad to hear of uprisings, but it is perfectly understandable that most were numbed and terrorized and confused and psychologically broken. At the end, Mr Grossman marvels at how easily it was done and orchestrated. How chillingly easy. And asks what gives birth to racism? For one race to claim superiority and also claim the right to exterminate another race entirely, and deem others as undesirable and necessary for eradication too. What is to prevent it from happening again?
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