Chrisjens
394 posts
I'll never tire of saying this: you do NOT need self-help books. You need to read immortal works of fiction. You need to read The Brothers Karamazov and slowly recognize that each brother lives inside of you. You need to wrestle with faith and doubt, love and resentment, freedom and responsibility. You need to wrestle with the tension of these within you, with your own contradictions and shortcomings. You need to wrestle with the kinds of questions that aren't solved by productivity hacks — questions that can never be finally "solved" by your own will and understanding. You need to battle for your soul.
5 movies & 5 shows to get to know me: Sons of the Desert Singin’ in the Rain Seven Samurai Apu Trilogy Dracula, Prince of Darkness Steptoe and Son Dad’s Army Columbo Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy The Jewel in the Crown
From the earliest pages of The Brothers Karamazov I sensed that I was not important to Dostoevsky – that he wrote without worrying too much about what he put his readers through. That impression has been reinforced by most pages since. In his last book Inside Story, Martin Amis likens a writer to a host, welcoming the reader in, making them comfortable, entertaining as well as edifying them. Amis was a wonderful host, but Dostoevsky is insufferable. I couldn't wait to leave and doubt I'll be going over again. But it wasn't all drudgery. The murder mystery at the core of The Brothers Karamazov has gripping twists and the final courtroom scenes unfold with high drama. The character of Aglaya in The Idiot is hilariously capricious and nasty. ✍️ Mark Nayler Article | spectator.com/article/dostoe…
After she lost her entire family in the Holocaust, Ireland rejected her. Ireland was only taking in German orphans, children of the Wehrmacht, and Gestapo war criminals. Do you know which country was the only one that would take her in and give her a new life in 1948? The State of Israel.
