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Cynthia L. Haven on René Girard, Czeslaw Milosz, and Joseph Brodsky

Conversations with Tyler

CHAPTER

Milos and Gerard: Is There Such a Liberal Side of Dostoevsky?

Dostoevsky was obsessed with the intellectual corruption in France post World War II. He wrote his master work of social science about how conformist everyone is, and that they're unwilling to think independently. I don't think conformity is left or right, or liberal or conservative. It's just human nature," he says.

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