from The Recognitions

[kelber at mindspring.com]

-----Original Message-----
>From: rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com>

>Reef reckless, Frank reasonable, Kit religious--Brothers K no
>doubt--Kit=Misha, Frank=Ivan, Reef=Dimitri?--not an exact
>correspondence, just a thought
>

Any time there are three brothers, a Dostoyevsky alarm goes off, but in this case, it's hard to justify.  Reef may be akin to the impulsive Dmitri; Kit is someone who desperately wants to be religious (mathematically speaking) but has some doubts, similar to Alyosha; but reasonable old Frank akin to tormented intellectual Ivan?  No way!  There's no place in D.'s universe for "reasonable."  The Lake/Deuce couple make an interesting Smerdyakov, though.

Laura