Notes on the Brothers Karamazov

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Chuck Palahniuk once wrote: “To begin a new novel, I look for the biggest problem in my life that I can’t solve or tolerate. I build it up to the worst scenario possible and then find a way to solve it. ” For Dostoyevsky, that problem that drove his novels was no less than all of human suffering. In other words, like life, narrative only seems endless.

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