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Popular Culture: An Alphabetical Contempt. a) Let’s not mince words. All populist entertainment is repulsive, useless, dangerous and witheringly anti-intellectual. b) Except maybe Doctor Who. But that’s hardly Beckett, is it? c) I first became an intellectual snob in my late teens. I witnessed first Leggi tutto

“At the inquest our doctors absolutely and emphatically rejected all idea of insanity.” I open with the closing lines, on the brink of exhaustion, not sure of my own state of sanity. Reading Dostoyevsky is a bit like spending time with close family members with a diametrically opposed worldview: I lo Leggi tutto

Бесы = The Possessed = Demons = The Devils, Fyodor Dostoyevsky The Devils is a novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, first published in the journal The Russian Messenger in 1871–2. It is considered one of the four masterworks written by Dostoyevsky after his return from Siberian exile, along with Crime and P Leggi tutto

“Full freedom will come only when it makes no difference whether to live or not to live. That’s the goal for everyone.” ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Demons [Review in limbo] I loved the Devil(s) out of the Possessed How the Hell do I adequately review this? Once someone hits a certain genius with writing (or Leggi tutto

"Si usted supiera, Sónechka, cuánto cuesta ser escritor, es decir, ¡cargar con la suerte del escritor! Mire usted: yo estoy seguro de que si dispusiese para escribir una novela, de dos a tres años —lujo que pueden permitirse Turguéniev, Gonchárov y Tolstoi— me saldría una obra de la que se hablaría Leggi tutto

Winds of change are finally sweeping Czarist Russia , in the 1860's. Ideas good or bad , arrive too, they have been around for decades in the rest of Europe, this land is no longer isolated ... Socialism is the new fad for the intellectuals. The serfs have been freed by Alexander the Second, courts

چند نظر شخصی و سلیقه‌ای الف. ترجمه‌ی سروش حبیبی را بخوانید. فصلی از کتاب به دلایلی در چاپ‌های نخستین حذف می‌شود و بعد به کتاب اضافه شده است. با این وجود قبل از خواندن، انتهای کتاب را نگاه کنید و فصلی که پس از پایان رمان به کتاب ضمیمه شده است را ببینید. بهتر است این فصل را در موعد مقرر (فصل هشتم قسمت Leggi tutto

"Listen to a big idea: There was one day on earth, and in the middle of the earth stood three crosses. One on a cross believed so much that he said to another: 'This day you will be with me in paradise.' They day ended, they both died, went, and did not find either paradise or resurrection. What

هل الله موجود؟ فاين هو مما يحدث إذا؟ ماذا نفعل للنهوض بروسيا و اللحاق بأوروبا؟هذه هي الأسئلة الثلاثة التي دارت حولها الرواية برغم أن هذا الكتاب ليس كتابا في اللاهوت و لا مباحث في الفلسفة و ليس أيضا تمهيد لسيجموند فرويد. إنه القدير دوستويفسكي يتنبأ بمستقبل روسيا لعدة عقود قادمة. في كل مكان و في كل ز Leggi tutto

Demons First of all, a little note. I’ve read the book in Russian, and normally I would review it in Russian as well. But I think the Demons are unjustifiably overshadowed in the West by other Dostoevsky novels. So I wanted to write something to change the situation a bit. It is the most powerful nove Leggi tutto