7. One day the boy, Pheidonides said he was alone in the wide world. ‘No one cared if I lived or died,’ he said. Aesop let him speak. The boy explained that since he considered himself not responsible for his little brothers he came to the conclusion there existed no reason why should others care [...]
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The Life of Dosteovsky
Posted in 19th Century literature, literature, philosophy, tagged Mother Russia, sefs, souls, Tsarist Russia on November 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
If the works of any man could make his biographer write in exasperation as thus: “All the while I was writing the biography I had to fight off a revulsion that kept rising within me,” we know it has to be that of Fyodor Dosteovsky. Leo Tolstoy was in full agreement with Nicholas Strakhov, who [...]
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