![]() ![]() ![]() The novel is comic because life is comic (until the inevitable tragedy of the fifth act). ![]() Martin Amis: “Gogol is funny, Tolstoy in his merciless clarity is funny, and Dostoyevsky, funnily enough, is very funny indeed moreover, the final generation of Russian literature, before it was destroyed by Lenin and Stalin, remained emphatically comic - Bunin, Bely, Bulgakov, Zamyatin. Cavafy: "I’d rather look at things than speak about them." G C Lichtenberg: “It is as if our languages were confounded: when we want a thought, they bring us a word when we ask for a word, they give us a dash and when we expect a dash, there comes a piece of bawdy.”Ĭ. ![]()
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