Fyodor Dostoevsky
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I agree with you about "the idiot" and extend it to include "the gambler" as well.sweetos wrote:i just finished dostoevsky's book, "the idiot". it's amazing. it's just disappointing that not a lot of people have read this book. and it's even less popular than dostoevsky's other work, "crime and punishment". i haven't read that one but i'm sure that if people recognize c&p as one of the best classics, the idiot should receive the same recognition.
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That's why Dostoevsky's writing is famous: these days, it takes an "amazing" writer to get their readers to side with the protagonist and hate the antagonist. Dostoevsky makes me like the antagonist. These days, he'd make a great lawyer or politician. Does my head in, but i love it.
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I don't think that is his thing. I haven't read all his works, but I have read the Brothers Karamazov and C&P and am reading The Idiot. I think his novels speak to me of hope and redemption. Look at C&P, an Axe Murderer is the main character, and he eventually finds... perhaps not redemption, but hope. I think the scene where he kneels before Dunya is one of the most moving in literature. Dunya is a prostitute, yet she is free of moral offense, she has retained her innocence, this instills guilt, but also hope in Raskolnikov.KaeMartyndale wrote:I just finished his short story "The Little Orphan". It was well written, but incredibly depressing. But, that's his thing, right?
I love the Brothers K. Alyosha (Alexi)is certainly one of the greatest characters ever. As I read, I realized that Alyosha could have been like either of his brothers. He has had the same doubts as his brother Ivan concerning the justice of God and life. He has fought the same passions that rule and destroy Dimitri. Yet, he becomes someone totally different. He has reason to doubt, passion to battle, yet he becomes who he wants to become, exercising hope and faith in the face of controversy.
When Dostoevsky was in a prison camp in Siberia, he had only a Bible. With a mind as voracious as his, he must have devoured it. I think hope and faith ring through in his writing.
So, what say ye?
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Then, with such a great feeling about Dos. I turned to Notes from Underground. Yuck!!! I did not like this little book at all. It was depressing and unredeeming i felt. So, I have taken a holiday from Dos. for a while.
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I'm pretty sure it was Sonya who was the harlot, not Dunya (Rodya's sister).LawnTamer wrote:I don't think that is his thing. I haven't read all his works, but I have read the Brothers Karamazov and C&P and am reading The Idiot. I think his novels speak to me of hope and redemption. Look at C&P, an Axe Murderer is the main character, and he eventually finds... perhaps not redemption, but hope. I think the scene where he kneels before Dunya is one of the most moving in literature. Dunya is a prostitute, yet she is free of moral offense, she has retained her innocence, this instills guilt, but also hope in Raskolnikov.
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