let us not forget sartre for human psychology. god i love the first
in the trilogy the roads to freedom entitled the age of reason.
whoo! that book has some wonderful fucked up people in it.
robert
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> Ah, your muddled comments are amusing me. Dostoyevsky hits human nature
> better
> than 90% of the hacks that pass for "modern writers." It isn't "who we
> were,"
> it's who we are... that's the nature of good literature, it doesn't limit
> itself to the time in which it was written.
>
> Self-affirmingly meditative,
> J.
>
> "Public opinion is always right, especially when it's really idiotic."
> L.F. Celine
>
>
>
> > > to cover 20th century authors, and before that,
> > > Fyodor Mikhailovich D., any and all...
> >
> > I really am almost exclusively interested in modern writing - which is
> > not to say anything bad about pre-20th century work, just that I'm not
> > in 2 it. I'm interested in literature that explores who we are, who
> > we've become recently - not who we were, because I don't believe it's
> > possible to truly comprehend who we were just by reading literature -
> > the only reason I can comprehend "who we are" (humanity) in modern works
> > is because I already know - in a sense I think literature should be
> > self-affirming or, more precisely, meditative - literature should be
> > gospel, not documentary.
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