{"id":25160,"date":"2021-03-08T14:48:03","date_gmt":"2021-03-08T14:48:03","guid":{"rendered":"\/p\/george-saunders-misreads-19th-century-russian-literature#id29246"},"modified":"2021-03-08T14:48:03","modified_gmt":"2021-03-08T14:48:03","slug":"jennifer-wilson-george-saunders-ignores-particulars-of-russian-literature-in-search-of-universal-truths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/jennifer-wilson-george-saunders-ignores-particulars-of-russian-literature-in-search-of-universal-truths\/","title":{"rendered":"Jennifer Wilson: George Saunders ignores particulars of Russian literature in search of universal truths."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>That these writers held quite passionate and critical views of certain human behavior or social types often gets cast aside, as Saunders tries to squeeze them into what I think of as the Empathy Industrial Complex.<\/p>\n<p>        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bookforum.com\/print\/2801\/george-saunders-looks-for-life-lessons-in-russian-literature-24370\">&#x021A9;&#xFE0E; Bookforum<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/themorningnews.org\/p\/george-saunders-misreads-19th-century-russian-literature\">View Post &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>        That these writers held quite passionate and critical views of certain human behavior or social types often gets cast aside, as Saunders tries to squeeze them into what I think of as the Empathy Industrial Complex.<br \/>\n      &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25160"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25161,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25160\/revisions\/25161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}