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[bekah]

At 12:12 AM -0400 6/26/06, jd wrote:
>It seems he is at some level trying to be Dostoyevsky-ish in this
>manner but when he interjects himself or his own opinion it's just too
>much more evident - maybe because it was written so recently that the
>grave hasn't had time to distance the writer from his work.


Maybe also because it's jarring to our sensibilities whereas for 
works of Dosoevsky it's pretty common.  I'm currently reading The 
Brothers Karamazov and I can see exactly what you mean and I can see 
how it wouldn't come off quite the same in a contemporary novel what 
with all the other influences from Joyce to ... well .... Pynchon.

Bekah