Not P but DFW on Dostoevsky

[Mark Kohut]

When I read The Possessed, much before GR was published, I, too, thought
Big D described the world
around him....

Didn't he?

On Thu, Mar 30, 2023 at 10:03 AM Martin Dietze <mdietze at gmail.com> wrote:

> Fun fact: when I first read Dostoyevsky's "Demons" I was struck by its
> absurdity and felt myself reminded of Pynchon's novels, in particular GR.
>
> Shortly after that I took my first trip to Ukraine and had a long
> conversation with a relative who was about 15 years older than me and like
> me loved literature. I told him about my observations, and he replied:
> "You're wrong. There's a fundamental difference between Dostoyevsky and
> Pynchon. In Dostoyevsky's novels it's not at all fiction. The absurdity you
> find in there is not stilistic, neither humor. He simply described the
> world around him."
>
> Of course that guy (my relative? Dostoyevsky? both?) must have been a
> russophobe 😉
>
> Cheers,
>
> Martin
>
>
> On Thu, 30 Mar 2023 at 14:50, Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > "He ascended into Heaven and sitteth upon the right hand of God."
> > Remembering, of course, that the left hand was used for cleaning oneself
> > after defecation.
> >
> > On Thu, Mar 30, 2023 at 5:43 AM Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com
> >
> > wrote:
> >
> > > The following excerpt is from David Foster Wallace's Joseph Frank's
> > > Dostoevsky:
> > >
> > > Even if we suppose he was divine — did he know? Did he know he could
> have
> > > broken the cross with just a word? Did he know in advance that death
> > would
> > > just be temporary (because I bet I could climb up there, too, if I knew
> > > that an eternity of right-hand bliss lay on the other side of six hours
> > of
> > > pain)?
> > >
> > > Here he is talking about Jesus Christ. What does the word "right-hand"
> > mean
> > > in "right-hand bliss"?
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