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From: Manila Bulletin
Date: 20021217
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THE world's men of letters doff their hats to Russia because it is the beloved home to two of the world's greatest writers, Leo Tolstoy and Fyodor Dostoevsky. The great English critic, E.M. Forster, in his famous work, Aspects of the Novel, likened Tolstoy's War and Peace to the colomades of a grand Grecian monument and Dostoevsky's Brothers Karamazov to a cavernous cathedral. Forster calls them the two foremost novels of world literature.
This probably explains my own lifetime fascination with the great Russian land and why I took the leading role in forming the ...
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