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Fyodor Dostoevsky

...the nastiest Christian I've ever met. -Turgenev

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Ideas: Christianity, Atheism, Materialism, Socialism, Russia, Pan-slavism, Critical Theory, Bakhtin, Turgenev, Tolstoy, Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, existentialism, Brothers Karamazov, Crime and Punishment, Idiot, Demons, Redemption, Orthodoxy, sin, free will, determinism, bare particulars, ambiguity.

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Tolstoy on Dostoevsky

Tolstoys random comments on Dostoevsky: How close Dostoevsky is to me in spirit Dostoevsky, yes- he was a great writer. Or rather its not so much that he was a great writer as that he had ...
Posted by Fyodor Dostoevsky on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

voices in the Brothers Karamazov.

Do any of my characters have the authoritative voice in Brothers Karamazov, i.e. is Ivan's voice/worldview favored over Alyosha's? Is my voice identical to the favored character's voice? Or are thes...
Posted by Fyodor Dostoevsky on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Christian existentialism?

Existentialism historically prides itself on having no universally shared tenets since so many 'existentialist' writers disagree on the very basic of issues. Nevertheless there arguably is a distinct...
Posted by Fyodor Dostoevsky on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST