Jumping here,
I believe, because Literature is a little about beliving, that Brothers Karamazov chapter The Great Inquisitor (Where Ivan narrates to Alysha his "dream" about Jesus returning) is an example of perfection, one of the most perfect, momments of all our literature.
Other than this, I could take that Henry James critic to Dostoievisky is predictable, as James was a monster of control, planning, each piece in the right momment, clarity, equillibrium. Dostoievisky in other way was instinct, conflict, torture. (By no mean it means that Dostoievisky did not planned his novels or that he did not dominated the techniques, which would be an absurd, since he took to a new level Dickens way to create novels and bring characters interation). They are obvious oposites.
Conrad, I am not so familiar with his style to say anything but that reading Heart of Darkness, he is obviously not interessed to make the reader be lost in a labyrinth of words and excess like Dostoievisky, but rather in symbols and ideas...
Anyways, Nabokov also disliked Dostoievisky a lot, I think that The Idiot was the only book he considered any good...(But then, a rationalist like Nabokov, with profund dislike for psychology blablablas, hardly would like Dostoievisky...)
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Originally Posted by JCamilo
