| | Comment from (2007-07-26) |
| Dostoyevsky was a bigot, a fanatic nationalist, and a religious nut. None of that matters, because he articulates the other side of most controversies he is in better than anyone. His characters are more living and more spritely than anyone's, his tragedies advance as inexorably as Shakespeare's, but with far more detours for tying the knots and for reflection from multiple perspectives, and he is the only novelist I've found able to make real, creative philosophical exposition part of his narrative--he's better than T. Mann and Sartre by far, for instance. Absolutely the best novelist ever. |
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