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RE: 📚✏ 📙 Steemit Bookclub / Idiot / INTRODUCTION
"On voit le soleil" :) Those Russian writers and their mastery of the French language keep surprising and delighting me :) Obviously, after that mock execution, Dostoyevsky felt "reborn" and saw the world in a different way... The difficult is obviously to make people who didn't have that experience see the world in such a way, with the eyes of a child... or an Idiot :)
@herverisson
exactly! It always fascinated me, how all of them, all those ''big Russian writers'' had this with religion, this really specific understanding and feeling of religion, there is a great quote, which I will now paraphrase, from Dostoevsky's book ''Demons'', his character Stavrogin I think it was, he said ''I....I....I will believe in God''. And this sentence sums up the Russian soul, the struggle to believe in God. If you read Gogol perhaps, that's level up struggle, he burned his sequel of ''Dead Souls'' because his priest told him that it's blasphemy.
I want to read Dead Souls too... :) I read only the short stories of Gogol and The Revizor play :) I have read "Demons" but the truth is that I can't recall much about it... Let's see how is The idiot first!
@herverisson
haha, true!
first thing first :)