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01/12/202320/10/2024

What Does it Mean to be a Karamazov? Dostoevsky and the Human Soul

Dostoevsky’s final work is also the culmination of his artistic endeavour, laying bare the entire scope of the human condition over the course of almost one thousand pages. I have recently finished this masterwork, and now attempt to organise some of my thoughts about its message.

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30/07/202305/09/2023

A Fantastically Stronger Understanding of Reality: Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita

In the censorious grip of Soviet Russia, writing a satire of Stalin’s leadership was asking for trouble. On the other hand, an innocuous fairy tale about witchery, devilish occurrences and mysterious disappearances in Moscow would’ve been entirely harmless, right?

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