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Hey Roger this is probably the most realistic scenario and I think the same. I guess Mr. Towles didn't want to make The Count run away from his beloved country and settled for a more romantic but less realistic ending.
To use another allusion, Count Rosov would have said, about his skipping town, "I doubt they'll kick up any fuss. Not for an old crook like me"
I choose to suspend my disbelief and go with the lovely ending that the author imagined. If the Chief Administrator (Osip) was not going to pursue Alexander, then perhaps he and Anna could live the rest of their days in the small town. No one liked the Bishop and no one is going to pay any attention to him.
Roger - I completely agree with you. The KGB would have pursued Rostov relentlessly including torturing those close to him, When they found him, he would have been shipped to Siberia to a camp or killed.
What you say is probably true - but he had already built a long term friendship with Osip, the diplomat, who gave instructions to "round up the usual suspects", which would likely take the KGB off the scent.
The KGB was Osup, his friend. I rather imagine a more romantic ending. Not believing in that possibility is not believing the entirety of the novel.
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Hey Roger this is probably the most realistic scenario and I think the same. I guess Mr. Towles didn't want to make The Count run away from his beloved country and settled for a more romantic but less realistic ending.
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To use another allusion, Count Rosov would have said, about his skipping town, "I doubt they'll kick up any fuss. Not for an old crook like me"
I choose to suspend my disbelief and go with the lovely ending that the author imagined. If the Chief Administrator (Osip) was not going to pursue Alexander, then perhaps he and Anna could live the rest of their days in the small town. No one liked the Bishop and no one is going to pay any attention to him.
Roger - I completely agree with you. The KGB would have pursued Rostov relentlessly including torturing those close to him, When they found him, he would have been shipped to Siberia to a camp or killed.
What you say is probably true - but he had already built a long term friendship with Osip, the diplomat, who gave instructions to "round up the usual suspects", which would likely take the KGB off the scent.
The KGB was Osup, his friend. I rather imagine a more romantic ending. Not believing in that possibility is not believing the entirety of the novel.
