As I have noted before in this space, one of the amazing things about The Brothers Karamazov is that it contains within it a zillion different themes. I recently read it with one of my reading groups. I was talking with one of the students a few days before we were going to meet and asked her which of the endless possibilities she thought would be an interesting discussion. Her reply, to put it mildly, surprised me. She really wanted to talk about Perezvon. If you haven’t read the … [Read more...] about More Surprises in The Brothers Karamazov
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