TMoP

Heikki Raudaskoski hraudask at sun3.oulu.fi
Thu Aug 28 11:27:20 CDT 2008


Yep, such an idea has been proposed (not by me though). But it'd
be a long project as The Possessed is almost as long as AtD.

But from what I hear, The Possessed is such a vital intertext to
TMoP that it will loom large in any reading of Coetzee's novel,
regardless of how explicitly it is included in the group read.


Heikki



On Thu, 28 Aug 2008, Tim Strzechowski wrote:

> I'm hoping to follow along with the MoP discussion as well, but are we also
> considering reading Dostoyevsky?  I  don't object, but I thought we were
> just reading MoP.
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> > So I'm not able to say whether reading TMoP along with The
> > Possessed is a good idea. Just want to state the obvious:
> > the Dostoevsky novel (which I did read in the 80s) begs to be
> > compared to OBA's fictions too, especially VL, AtD and GR.
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> > Heikki
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