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To discuss your weekly readings of books, textbooks and papers.
I'm in part 5 of "Crime & Punishment", I'm currently doing a re-reading. The first time I read that book was 9 years ago, I remember the general plot but I had forgotten many details and there's a lot to the story I didn't understand on my first reading. I know Dostoevsky sometimes gets derided as a book for edgy young men but that's quite unfair considering how much influence he had on writers like Kafka, James Joyce, García Márquez, Mishima, Camus. And I think many miss the point that Dostoevsky critizes the nihilists (19th century edgelords) of his era. He can be quite a vicious satirist, there's a chapter where the proto commie Lebeziatnikov talks about how life in the commune will be and how marriage is outdated and how he's totally ok with cuckery and that he wishes being cucked if he ever gets married while Luzhin bursts in laughter while he monologues on a serious tone. Seriously, the guy vomited so many Rose twitter talking points, I guess there's nothing new under the sun.
Razumikhin is a chad just like I remembered him, he's the friend everyone wishes to have. Rodion is a pseudo-intellectual, he tries so hard to be edgy with his "extraordinary men not bounded to crime" manifesto believing himself as a sort of ubermensch, I love how Dostoevsky shreds his worldview as he suffers from guilt. I never read Brothers Karamazov but now I'm definitely going for it and add it to my reading list.
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Brothers Karamazov is based and Christpilled and we should all look to Alyosha for guidance. Idiot is similarly a great demonstration of the value in becoming a fool for Christ.
I'm nearing the end of Brideshead now. My headcold cleared up about a day after posting on this thread last week.
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Dostoevsky was a devoted Christian Orthodox, but his ideas had a huge impact on many !catholics
Pope Benedict XVI cited a passage from Karamazov Brothers on his Spe Salvi. Well, Orthodox Christianity is much closer to Catholicism than any flavor of Protestantism after all (the Great Schism was more political than theological).
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The Grand Inquisitor chapter is one of the highlights of all Christian literature and most of my literate Catholic friends love it, even if (maybe because?) it poses the institutional Church against Christ. I wish more of the RadTrads actually read Benedict, they support him for Summorum Pontificum which enabled greater spread of the Latin Mass but on the whole he was liturgically conservative but theologically very modern in terms of incorporating post Reformation/Enlightenment era thought and responding to it earnestly without burying his head in the sand.
I thought you were atheist tbh.
How many of the encyclicals have you read?
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None, I merely googled about Dostoevsky's influence and reviews on Brothers Karamazov as I'm considering buying a copy of the novel. I never read any theological work besides the Bible and excerpts from the Catechism. I considered reading some Hagiography at some point as some Saints went through a lot of shit.
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