Comments on: Stories without closure

By: chronotopist

chronotopist — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 17:02:52 +0000

Yes, Michael Jackson’s life story is a good example for the topic. Thanks for visiting, Dan!

By: danmihalache

danmihalache — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 12:42:14 +0000

By: chronotopist

chronotopist — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 23:00:19 +0000

Thanks, Sonja!
I don’t know if Tolstoy has such an easy answer as “punishment for crimes” – he was deeply religious, to be sure, but I don’t think he gives punishment to any of his conflicted characters, metaphorically.

I remember that there used to be a Great Classics reading group locally, but unfortunately it doesn’t exist anymore. It would be wonderful to revisit classics with no immediate connection to everyday life. If you hear about something like that, let me know! Or maybe we can organize it, if it doesn’t happen.

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Fort Worth on the Web this Week | Fort Worth Renaissance — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 18:21:02 +0000

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By: Sonja

Sonja — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 13:57:47 +0000

I think Anna Karenina’s suicide was a punishment for her crimes … Tolstoy was nothing if not a moralist. And he goes to some pains to show the insincerity and moral turpitude of Vronsky and Anna.

Tolstoy was a profoundly religious man and that shows throughout the work. One major difference between modern literature and older works is that authors who are basically nihilistic struggle to provide adequate plot, probably because they don’t believe life has one.

Epistomology, then, becomes literary destiny. Many earlier writers, meanwhile, write with more structure because they believed existence had one.