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DOSTOEVSKY and/or EA VAN VOGHT? Their Impact Today?

  • 16-01-2003 10:07PM
    #1
    TrevorOcon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 31 ✭





    Anyone familiar with the works of either Fyodor **DOSTOEVSKY** [Dostoyevski ] or **AE VAN VOGHT** - - - or anyone

    who would like to know why they are among the writers most important to analysis of human development [nearly as important as Plato ] - please contribute to this discussion

    Also a more modern master who relates to Both these authors would be Frank Herbert who create DUNE and DUNE MESSIAH.

    This discussion could lead to Practical projects and Real Life meetings. Hope there are people interested

    Trevor O'Connell

    (I don't know how to use these printing codes - so this is just an attempt)


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  • #2
    TrevorOcon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 31 ✭TrevorOcon


    lance@graffiti.net


  • #3
    DadaKopf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,731 ✭✭✭DadaKopf


    What are you doing? Trying to get someone to write an essay for your coursework?

    Dosty is important because he's attributed with being one of the earliest (Christian) existentialists, while Crime and Punishment contains ideas attributed to proto-Nietzscheanism. Furthermore, he, in conjunction with Dickens, Hugo and Hamsun, made the stories and dramas of ordinary Poor Folk worthy of the apparent universal appeal of high art and of the bourgeoisie's attention. He, among other writers and artists (including Marx) moralised the gross inequalities and squalour rampant in turn of the century Europe.

    Dosty is relevant today because his stories are actually deep meditations on the universal qualities of human existence, questions which we're eternally trying to answer. Those things never go out fo fashion.

    How about that?


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