Harvard prof discusses suffering in Dostoevsky's works at Boston U.

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From: University Wire
Date: 20051209
Author:Caroline Hotchkiss

Caroline Hotchkiss
University Wire
12-09-2005
(The Daily Free Press) (U-WIRE) BOSTON -- Harvard University professor James Wood lectured on Fyodor Dostoevsky on Wednesday night at Boston University in an event that drew such a large turnout that it was moved from the George Sherman Union's Terrace Lounge into the Conference Auditorium.

The lecture was part of the Distinguished Lecture Series on Evil, sponsored by the university's Institute for Philosophy and Religion and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and co-sponsored by the Luce Program in Scripture and the Literary Arts.

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