One Hundred Best Books, With Commentary And An Essay On Books And Reading
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He teaches a shame- less and antinomian hedonism, narrower, less hu- mane, but more fervid and emotional, than that taught by Remy de Gourmont. In " The Triumph of Death " we find a fierce smol- dering voluptuousness, expressed with a hard and brutal realism which recalls the frescoes on the walls of ancient Pompeii. In " The Flame of Life " we have in superb rhetoric the most colored and ardent description of Venice to be found in all literature. Perhaps the finest passage he ever wrote is tha...t account of the speech of the Master of Life in the Doge's Palace with its incomparable eulogy upon Veronese and its allusion to Pisanello's head of Sigismondo Malatesta. 42. Dostoievsky. Crime and Pimishment. The Idiot. The Brothers Karamazov. The Insulted and Injured. The Possessed. Translated by Con- stance Gamett and published by Macmillan. Other translations in Everyman's Library. Dostoievsky is the greatest and most racial of all Rus- sian writers. He is the subtlest psychologist in fiction.
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