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by xhevahir
1556 days ago
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There's also his antisemitism and what you might call his Christian (specifically, Russian-Orthodox) chauvinism, and his hostility to Western culture. Like the bloggers say, he's not very consistent in his positions, at least when you consider his work as a whole--his so-called "polyphonic" approach involves putting several worldviews in conversation with one another and showing no obvious preference for one over the others. Interestingly, the Soviets discouraged reading Dostoevsky, as opposed to his rival Tolstoy, whom they saw as amenable to a Marxist reading. |
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