Saturday Evening Film: Biography, Dostoyevsky
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Saturday Evening Film: Biography, Dostoyevsky
From 1975, Narrated By Malcolm Muggeridge
Note: The music sounds weird and warpy like this in every vintage documentary made for TV, I don’t know why.
I’m trying to change the subject before we all break down completely. Trying to remember other subjects. Things that once interested us, and could again.
His best novel in my opinion is Crime and Punishment, which I found to be at the age of 18 a real page turner. I easily related to the impoverished living circumstances of Raskolnikov. I think the moral of the story is that in spite of Marxist rhetoric humans do have a conscience. Some unscrupulous individuals probably do their best to suppress their conscience or ego ideal to justify criminality. It is because we can choose between authenticity or negation.
thank you- it's not breaking down but waking up that's hard to do