The Monologue Beyond the Dialogue
by Peter J. LeithartWhy are Dostoevsky’s novels so compulsively readable? What makes his characters seem so alive? Continue Reading »
Why are Dostoevsky’s novels so compulsively readable? What makes his characters seem so alive? Continue Reading »
I have had this experience three times now, on three different occasions, in admittedly similar circumstances, but not similar enough to explain the coincidence: I am speaking from a podium to a fairly large audience on the topics of—to put it broadly—evil, suffering, and God; I have been talking for several minutes about Ivan Karamazov, and about things I have written on Dostoevsky, to what seems general approbation; then, for some reason or other, I happen to remark that, considered purely as an artist, Dostoevsky is immeasurably inferior to Tolstoy; at this, a single pained gasp of incredulity breaks out … Continue Reading »
Joseph Schwartz: Walker Percy's Wise AnswersIt is unfortunate that Paul Greenberg’s appreciation of Walker Percy in these pages (November 1990) should have been marred by his misreading of The Moviegoer. Greenberg has fallen into the common critical error of reading that novel as if it were . . . . Continue Reading »
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