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Reread the ultimate in depressing protest novels, EVERY MAN DIES ALONE

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Naomi K
Jun 12, 2020
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I would say the main difference between TV and literature is that in TV the good guys usually win, but in novels, they almost never do. If they were to film a story like Every Man Dies Alone (not this book specifically, because it’s ending is too well-known, but one like it, about German resistance to the Nazis), there’d be some kind of success. They wo…

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