I hate to all the time be talking about David B. Hart, the theologian, but his writing is too good to go unremarked. Today, at First Things, he’s taken on that perennial question: Dostoevsky or Tolstoy? (Plus a new vocab word for me: “tourbillion.”)
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That’s like asking to choose between beer and tacos.Report
Beer, please.Report
Considering that I’ve never finished a Tolstoy novel because they put me to sleep but when I read Dostoyevsky I often go days without food or sleep because I can’t put the book down, I have to go with Dostoyevsky.Report
I have the opposite reaction. The only reason I finished Crime and Punishment is because I forced myself to finish it. Anna Karenina, on the other hand, is perfection.Report