[εις επαινον δοξης αυτου] New comment on Quotable, The Brothers Karamazov.
greglong has left a new comment on your post "Quotable, The Brothers Karamazov":
Let me begin by saying I read Crime and Punishment and The Idiot and found Russian literature is not for me. I struggled to make it through both of them, especially The Idiot.
But it's clear D. wrestled with religion in his writings. From The Idiot:
" …the essence of religious feeling doesn't depend on reasoning, and it has nothing to do with crime or atheism. There is something else there and there always will be, and atheists will always pass over it and will never be talking about that."
A key element of the novel is a portrait of Christ taken down from the Cross by Hans Holbein. And the Prince himself is supposed to be a Christ-figure, although I wouldn't have seen that if I didn't get it from others.
Posted by greglong to εις επαινον δοξης αυτου at 10:46 AM
Let me begin by saying I read Crime and Punishment and The Idiot and found Russian literature is not for me. I struggled to make it through both of them, especially The Idiot.
But it's clear D. wrestled with religion in his writings. From The Idiot:
" …the essence of religious feeling doesn't depend on reasoning, and it has nothing to do with crime or atheism. There is something else there and there always will be, and atheists will always pass over it and will never be talking about that."
A key element of the novel is a portrait of Christ taken down from the Cross by Hans Holbein. And the Prince himself is supposed to be a Christ-figure, although I wouldn't have seen that if I didn't get it from others.
Posted by greglong to εις επαινον δοξης αυτου at 10:46 AM
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