“It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.”
"Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth."
“To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.”
―from "Crime and Punishment"
2010.11.11 上周六 我們讀書會時， 我提到每人對作家的評價都不同
譬如說 夏志清教授認為，莎士比亞與Fyodor Dostoevsky是世界最了不起的作家。
可是，納布可夫將後者"菜"得不堪。
契訶夫心目中 ，托爾斯泰是俄國第一。
丘光先生提起，他們中學也是讀舊俄小說， 所以將俄文當聯考前面的志願。
他又用《罪與罰》為例說明。
《罪與罰》是我讀的前幾本小說
我記得，1968年(約出書百年後) 到台中的遠東百貨中的書店買"新書"。
店員說，你這樣年輕就讀它.....
的確， 我幾乎都忘了。
可是丘兄一介紹，
我似乎都記起來了。
Fyodor Dostoevsky was sentenced to death for his involvement in an underground ring. Why was the sentence commuted to four years in prison? Writer Fyodor Dostoevsky was one of a group of 35 members of the Petrashevsky Circle, a Russian literary discussion group largely opposed to Russian serfdom and the tsarist autocracy. Czar Nicholas I, considering groups like this subversive and potentially damaging to his reign, put the prisoners through a symbolic ritual of execution. He had the prisoners sentenced to death, and then only minutes before the sentence was to be carried out, the czar commuted it, supposedly showing mercy on the condemned men. Dostoevky ended up serving four years at hard labor in a Siberian prison and another four years in enforced service in the Russian army. His books, including Notes from the Underground, Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov explore sin, morality and redemption. Fyodor Dostoevsky was born on November 11, 1821.
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“To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.”
―from "Crime and Punishment"
2010.11.11 上周六 我們讀書會時， 我提到每人對作家的評價都不同
譬如說 夏志清教授認為，莎士比亞與Fyodor Dostoevsky是世界最了不起的作家。
可是，納布可夫將後者"菜"得不堪。
契訶夫心目中 ，托爾斯泰是俄國第一。
丘光先生提起，他們中學也是讀舊俄小說， 所以將俄文當聯考前面的志願。
他又用《罪與罰》為例說明。
《罪與罰》是我讀的前幾本小說
我記得，1968年(約出書百年後) 到台中的遠東百貨中的書店買"新書"。
店員說，你這樣年輕就讀它.....
的確， 我幾乎都忘了。
可是丘兄一介紹，
我似乎都記起來了。
Fyodor Dostoevsky was sentenced to death for his involvement in an underground ring. Why was the sentence commuted to four years in prison? Writer Fyodor Dostoevsky was one of a group of 35 members of the Petrashevsky Circle, a Russian literary discussion group largely opposed to Russian serfdom and the tsarist autocracy. Czar Nicholas I, considering groups like this subversive and potentially damaging to his reign, put the prisoners through a symbolic ritual of execution. He had the prisoners sentenced to death, and then only minutes before the sentence was to be carried out, the czar commuted it, supposedly showing mercy on the condemned men. Dostoevky ended up serving four years at hard labor in a Siberian prison and another four years in enforced service in the Russian army. His books, including Notes from the Underground, Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov explore sin, morality and redemption. Fyodor Dostoevsky was born on November 11, 1821.
"To live without hope is to cease to live."— Fyodor Dostoevsky