... ! A number of factors have converged to convince me that I should read some Dostoevsky: reading David Foster Wallace's ... the Dead at the Metropolitan Opera, based on one of Dostoevsky's lesser-known novelsa promise I once made to ... wish Wallace had addressed this in his essay.) What novel will best give me the quintessential Dostoevsky flavor and make me fall in love with his work? Please ...

Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery in things. Once you perceive it, you will begin to comprehend it better every day. And you will come at last to love the whole world with an all-embracing love.-- Fyodor DostoevskyCategories: Fyodor Dostoevsky

Want to read to read the latest from Don DeLillo? Of course you do. Check out “Midnight in Dostoevsky,” via The New Yorker. Still not intrigued? Here’s the first paragraph: We were two sombre boys hunched in our coats, grim winter settling in. The college was at the edge of a small town way upstate, barely a town, maybe a hamlet, we said, or just a whistle stop, and we took ...

... … Sin, forgiveness, grace…not only do these themes abound in Scripture, but also in one of the most important Western novels ever penned. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky has long been viewed as one of the best novels in world literature and now it’s the free download for December, only from christianaudio. The book probes the possible roles of four brothers in the ...

Click on title to link to the Anatol Lunacharsky Internet Archive's copy of his essay on the great Russian writer Dostoevsky. Lunacharsky may have been a 'soft' Bolshevik and conciliatory toward Stalin, when the deal went down and the Russian Left Opposition was defeated, but he certainly has some interesting and thoughtful insights on the "culture wars" of his day.

It seems that while reading Part I of "Notes from the Underground" and "The Genealogy of Morals". What interests me is the 'table of logarithms' that the underground man talks about and how human behaviour is calculable with that table of logarithms. The Underground Man has clearly studied social and economic theories, and he has just learned that some unnamed ...

Two young students invent an imaginary world to evade their inconsequential one, when one continues left alone during vacation break and the other returns to find they are unable to reconcile what has been created a revolution erupts. Don DeLillo makes a fine use of the characters Robby and Todd to demonstrate the human need for control by dictating our interpretation of the world. He also ...

By Don Delillo. Another steal from the New Yorker this week. And that makes 3 about/from New York this week. All I have to say, I suppose, is that I live on the West Coast. And I live in a big house. And maybe I don’t blog enough. While I’m at it, I’d also like to introduce my Portland family to the blog. Beth’s joined us already with a good post on pop. And Brad, the ...

Don DeLillo, New Yorker We were two sombre boys hunched in our coats, grim winter settling in. The college was at the edge of a small town way upstate, barely a town, maybe a hamlet, we said, or just a whistle stop, and we took walks all the time, getting out, going nowhere, low skies and bare trees, hardly a soul to be seen. This was how we spoke of the local people: they were souls, they were ...

For anyone wanting a bit of a peek inside the forces that shaped my brain into what it has become (for better or worse), someone on YouTube has generously posted one of the biggest formative experiences of my youth: the 1983 Flying Karamazov Brothers special for Showtime, taped during their off-Broadway run of Juggling and Cheap Theatrics. Squee! The FKBs, and specifically this show, are a good ...

I became familiar with the work of Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky when I read their translation of Dostoevsky’s The Idiot five years ago. Reviewers praised Pevear and Volokhonsky’s fidelity to the original, right down to Dostoevsky’s “clumsiness” and all-around weirdness. I don’t know Russian so I can&# ...

... want and that the Church will now have to do the job. He is no longer wanted. +++ These two chapters from Dostoevsky are among the most poignant in modern Christian literature. They are particularly powerful in that that bring ... a response to the actions of man: it is a response to the actions of God. Dostoevsky’s answer to the Grand Inquisitor is not a better-honed argument – but a ...

... the time pass. It was during that time that I read Fyodor Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov. I have never considered myself a big book ... those names. Here is some background about the book from Christianaudio.com: Fyodor Dostoevsky’s crowning life work, The Brothers Karamazov, ... to experience the joy of reading his works. Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881) writes with a passion and keen ...

... the most applicable to everyday life. **-- Brothers Karamozov, by Fyodore Dostoevsky. This is considered by many to be the greatest novel ever written. It was less a novel than a psychological study of various types ... circumstances. The mind games he endured while trying to avoid capture were absorbing. Only Dostoevsky could create a character so completely. You will love him, hate him, sympathize ...

... , if you don’t want to be a sweetie, which would be quite pleasant, you don’t have to be. So, then, to convince yourself that Dostoevsky was a writer do you have to ask for his identification card? Just take any five pages from any one of his novels ... 8217;t,” replied Behemoth… “You’re not Dostoevsky,” replied the citizeness… “Well, who ...