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In Our Time: Philosophy

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The Strange Is a Novel, a Quest for the Father

The stranger is still massively read, perhaps for wrong reasons, but it's a wonderful novel. He was trying to produce a tolstoy novel which makes the death when it occurred, such a well, terrible thing. His ambition was, as he said, having rewritten dostoyevsky. And i think in many ways, if one were to say same thing about camew, i think that would be the image i would like to see of him in future.

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