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- Demons - Fyodor Dostoevsky translated by Richard Pevear & Larissa VolokhonskyWritten in 1872 and inspired by a political assassination in 1869, previous translations of this novel were erroneously titled The Possessed. Dostoevsky is a genius. It took me some time to get the hang of it, but once it got going, I was enthralled. I was puzzled for quite awhile as to who exactly the demons were. Then I realized that the characters weren't the demons. They were the possessed. The demons that possessed them weren't little red men with horns and goatees. They were much more terrible. Some of the minor demons: ignorance, vanity, conceit, lust, and indifference. The real bad asses though, were ideas like atheism, socialism and nihilism.These ideas consumed and blinded normal human beings such that they acted evilly. Less than a century after the writing of this novel, Europe saw ideas consume and blind enough to allow the heinous murder of tens of millions of people at the hands of Hitler, Stalin, Lenin, etc. Dostoevsky tried to warn us that our ideas are our creations and we are responsible for how we use them, how we harness them and keep them from harnessing us.
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My Life, Their Century. The Fathers. Stalin studies to be a priest, Hitlet -- an artist, Mao -- a poet... The Terror and Terrorists.Notes
"Dostoevsky gives me more than any scientist, more than Gauss!" -- Einstein
... ничего и никогда не было для человека и для человеческого общества невыносимее свободы! Dostoevsky
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“And there was one herd of many swine feeding on this mountain; and they besought him that he would suffer them to enter into them. And he suffered them.
“Then went the devils out of the man and entered into the swine; and the herd ran violently down a steep place into the lake and were choked.
“When they that fed them saw what was done, they fled, and went and told it in the city and in the country.
“Then they went out to see what was done; and came to Jesus and found the man, out of whom the devils were departed, sitting at the feet of Jesus, clothed and in his right mind; and they were afraid.” Luke, ch. viii. 32-37.
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Cuts page should grow, if I am to get to this project again. Dodin make the show in Petersburg three-night long. TV serial?
Cut the Barbara line (althoug Mother-Son is important for the "Stavrogin" titled story, she is in love with him, too - Freud?). What about Father (spiritual), who lives with his mother?
I am under Beckett's influence now (Godot), the absurd is the method in the Possessed (logic of murder), TERROR is expression of terror existential! OBL is a teenager (in his historical time-frame), European thought had in XIX century...
Beckett and Dostoevsky [ ]
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