Fyodor Dostoevsky

Solzhenitsyn uses Christ’s own words to show the “secondary significance” of the state structure: “‘Render unto Caesar what is Caesar’s’—not because every Caesar deserves it, but because Caesar’s concern is not with the most important thing in our lives.” --Edward E. Ericson, Jr. and Alexis Klimoff, Literary Profiles of Solzhenitsyn, excerpts from The Soul and Barbed Wire, edited by Edward E. Ericson, Jr. and Alexis Klimoff, First Principles, August 6, 2008 “The line between good and evil is drawn not between nations or parties, but through every human heart.” – Dostoevsky. That’s the way I had read it years ago and have remembered it ever since – it’s from The Diary of a Writer, a book notable for its foaming rages of Jew-hating as well as for a few jewels in the mud. --Richard Lawrence Cohen, If Dostoevsky Had Google, February 07, 2006 (via Althouse) [What appears to be the combined two volumes of this work, 1873-1876, and 1877-1881, is available at the Internet Archive.] Dostoevsky's dowager: Martin Ebel has paid a visit to Svetlana Geier, the Grande Dame of Russian-German translation. Sign and Sight, February 12, 2007 Dostoevsky and the Fiery Word, The Public Square column, by Richard John Neuhaus, First Things, March 2003 Ivan Karamazov’s Mistake, by Ralph C. Wood, First Things, December 2002 Sins of the Fathers, by Thomas G. West, review of Dostoevsky: The Mantle of the Prophet, 1871-1881, by Joseph Frank, Claremont Review of Books, Fall 2002 Wrestling Dostoevsky: A scholar concludes almost 50 years of biographical research with a final volume that reveals the novelist's dark side, review by Scott McLemee, Chronicle of Higher Education, May 17, 2002 Dostoevsky Also Nods, by Rodney Delasanta, First Things, January 2002 Dostoevsky and the Mystery of Russia, by David Allen White, Latin Mass, Fall 2001