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I’m doing a year of existential literature with a few Russians thrown in there and it’s really giving an interesting perspective on things. For Dostoyevsky, the dominance of dialectical materialism must have been a nightmare considering the absurdist anti-hero he dreamt up for this novel. In an era when philosophy was dominated by post-Kantian rational imperatives, our spiteful Russian hermit delivers an awesome response. He knows what is the right action and he knows what is expected. But it is
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