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Three Brothers, they're just..Three Brothers
2016-05-03 07:54:54 Post No. 7993317
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2016-05-03 07:54:54
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Reading this for the first time, from an existentialist perspective. Oscillating between fascination and complete boredom. There's a very long boring phase that really depresses me in the way anyone gets when disappointed by a classic when BAM, you find out how the murder really went down. You think it doesn't get any more dark and compelling than this when in the next chapter Satan appears.
Compound this with the fact that I was literally JUST watching Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal and was captivated by the knight's line. "They say you've been in league with the devil . . . I, too, want to meet him." She asks why. "I must ask him about God. He must know, or else nobody does."
In Brothers, page 597 of Dover Thrift Edition,
"Is there a God or not?" Ivan cried with the same savage intensity."
"Ah, then you are in earnest! My dear fellow, upon my word I don't know. There! I've said it now!"
Sorry for the long mostly nonsensical post. In the tradition of existentialism I didn't want to prove anything but share the experience of this book for me right now. Thoughts on this? Brothers in general? Dostoyevsky in general?
