Adam Piskorek

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In this book, Girard writes, “Dostoevsky's art during his great period... chases pride and egoism from their hiding places and exposes their presence in a kind of behaviour that is so strikingly like humility and altruism that it can be mistaken for them.” Unironically, I think the same can be said of his own reading of Dostoevsky which lays out in the book. Cynthia L. Haven (@chaven) writes in Evolution of Desire, “Girard's theories must explode inward rather than outward. ... His work invites you to set fire to the chair you're sitting on. It is a process he went through himself.” She also wrote that the real aim of Girard's work is “change of being.” That is to say, if there's one Girard book I would reread often — and I do — it'd be this one, because of the immense, transformative wisdom I believe it to possess.