When Fyodor Dostoevsky proclaims that he is a "realist in a higher sense," it is because the facts are irrelevant to his truth. And it is in this spirit that Apollonio approaches Dostoevsky s work, reading through the facts--the text--of his canonical novels for the deeper truth that they distort, mask, and, ultimately, disclose. This sort of reading against the grain is, Apollonio suggests, precisely what these works, with their emphasis on the hidden and the private and their narrative reliance on secrecy and slander, demand.In each work Apollonio focuses on one character or theme caught in...
When Fyodor Dostoevsky proclaims that he is a "realist in a higher sense," it is because the facts are irrelevant to his truth. And it is in this spir...
German Sadulaev's follow-up to his acclaimed "I am a Chechen "is set in a twenty-first century Russia, phantasmagorical and violent. A bitingly funny twenty-first century satire, "The Maya Pill" is strange, savage, bizarre, and uproarious.
German Sadulaev's follow-up to his acclaimed "I am a Chechen "is set in a twenty-first century Russia, phantasmagorical and violent. A bitingly fu...
When Fyodor Dostoevsky proclaims that he is a "realist in a higher sense", it is because the facts are irrelevant to his truth. And it is in this spirit that Apollonio approaches Dostoevsky's work, reading through the facts-the text-of his canonical novels for the deeper truth that they distort, mask, and, ultimately, disclose.
When Fyodor Dostoevsky proclaims that he is a "realist in a higher sense", it is because the facts are irrelevant to his truth. And it is in this spir...
