Including a few special hours of reading amidst a week of film and show watching
Was reading more of Joseph Frank's biography of Dostoevsky, and came to the point in the chapter about his youthful literary inspiration were that the most important came up, PUSHKIN. I never knew which of his stuff was the ones to look out for, there's of course a Tchaikovsky opera on one of them and stray others, but I never pursued it quite yet.
I think it was because I haven't tasted yet the heights of joy (which is an embracing of deep tragedy) yet. I hope to with the modern translation of the last novels.
Then I read some of the Introduction to Anna Karenina and wow, it's explaining why Tolstoy said it was his first novel, I won't go any further because I would look like a fool, perhaps misrepresenting newly found knowledge thus another hurdle not overhurdled.
But now I'm considering the whole Russian Literature as for sure a later development. And now is not the time to be so sidetracked by other things not in my curriculum. That means they matter, and that I meant what I said before, that it continues to be ever before my 1000 mental eyes.
I think it was because I haven't tasted yet the heights of joy (which is an embracing of deep tragedy) yet. I hope to with the modern translation of the last novels.
Then I read some of the Introduction to Anna Karenina and wow, it's explaining why Tolstoy said it was his first novel, I won't go any further because I would look like a fool, perhaps misrepresenting newly found knowledge thus another hurdle not overhurdled.
But now I'm considering the whole Russian Literature as for sure a later development. And now is not the time to be so sidetracked by other things not in my curriculum. That means they matter, and that I meant what I said before, that it continues to be ever before my 1000 mental eyes.
46-50, M
