Evangelization & Culture Podcast

Suffering & Russian Literature w/ Gary Saul Morson

Jul 25, 2023

47:46

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Episode notes

Introduction

3min

The Unfinalizedness of Russian Literature

3min

The Divergence Between Ideological Control and Surrender to the Unknown of the World

2min

The Confounding Variables of Science

3min

The Importance of Morality in Russian Literature

2min

The Importance of Progress in Russian Literature

3min

The Importance of Self-Esteem

3min

Dastoyevsky and the Human Soul

6min

How to Proclaim Christ to a Secular Culture

5min

10.

The Importance of Being Intentional

4min

11.

The Meaning of Life in Russian Literature

2min

12.

The Importance of Reading Great Literature

3min

13.

Wonder Confronts Certainty Russian Writers on the Timeless Questions

2min

14.

The Words of Others

2min

15.

The Importance of Suffering and Literature

6min

What Belarusian Svetlana Alexievich observed, upon winning the Nobel Prize for Literature, could as easily be ascribed to the Russian novelists: “Suffering is our capital, our national resource. . . Not oil or gas—but suffering.” What is it about Dostoevsky and Tolstoy, Chekhov and Turgenev that so keenly wrestles with suffering and the human soul?

Dr. Gary Saul Morson, a scholar of Russian literature at Northwestern University, joins me in exploring the depths of suffering in Russian literature.

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