We are cancelling the May 7th meeting, but will meet on the first Thursday of June, which is the 4th at 7pm, Gallery Room, Park Campus. We will be reading two chapters from The Brothers Karamazov. The links are for “Rebellion”: http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/d/dostoyevsky/d72b/chapter35.html and for “The Grand Inquisitor” (the following chapter): http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/d/dostoyevsky/d72b/chapter36.html
A brief abstract of The Brothers Karamazov runs: [...]
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Philosophy Reading Group Update
Posted in Books, tagged atheism, Dostoyevsky, faith, Ivan Karamazov, theodicy on April 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Tolstoy – Anna Karenina
Posted in Books, tagged Anna Karenina, literature, Russia, Tolstoy on March 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
We seem to be keeping along Russian lines with another work by Tolstoy for our next reading. This time it will be his classic work: Anna Karenina, a novel illustrating the lives of the 19th centry Russian elite, yet interpreted as a parable about living an authentic life in a society that accepts falseness.
Here [...]
Tolstoy – Two short works
Posted in Books, Philosophy & Ethics, tagged Books, Confession, Tolstoy, Twenty-Three Tales on February 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Our next reading is two short works by Leo Tolstoy; A Confession and ‘The Three Hermits’ from Twenty-Three Tales.
Both can be found online if you don’t want to buy the text: http://flag.blackened.net/daver/anarchism/tolstoy/confession.html
http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/toccer-new2?id=TolTale.sgm&images=images/modeng&data=/texts/english/modeng/parsed&tag=public∂=12&division=div2
The next meeting will be on Tuesday March 4th at 6pm.
The Double
Posted in Books, tagged book, Dostoevsky, fiction, Russian literature, The Double on December 12, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Our Christmas reading is to be Dostoevsky’s ‘The Double’.
This is the description on Amazon:
“The Double is a remarkable tale in the tradition of doppelgänger literature. As Dostoevsky examines the neurosis and paranoia that cripple a seemingly ordinary man, he produces a thoroughly ‘modern’ nightmare, brilliantly foreshadowing the works of Kafka and Sartre. Mr Golyadkin is [...]
