Saturday, July 24, 2010

Fyodor of the Absurd

I just realized that Dostoevsky might not have been entirely serious with some of his more tragic characters. I mean, he might have started out serious, but as the figure became more and more pathetic with every added detail of their heartbreaking plight, he might have took a look back on it and, well, laughed. After all, it was happening to his character, not to him.

Do you know what I mean, though? First you find out the child is sick. Then his mother comes in to strip him and beat him with thorny branches. Then he has to walk ten miles to his school and get spit on by every other kid on the way there. Etc. Etc.

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