The Re-re-read: Craft Talks on Classic Literature

The Brothers Karamazov: How to Make Your Novel of Ideas Less Boring

August 12, 2022 Ann Gelder Season 1
The Brothers Karamazov: How to Make Your Novel of Ideas Less Boring
The Re-re-read: Craft Talks on Classic Literature
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The Re-re-read: Craft Talks on Classic Literature
The Brothers Karamazov: How to Make Your Novel of Ideas Less Boring
Aug 12, 2022 Season 1
Ann Gelder

So you want to write a Big Philosophical Novel, but don't want to create pages of dry dialog representing various positions. Like Dostoevsky, you can lay out the human stakes of these viewpoints by staging a cringeworthy Simpsons episode in a monastery.

Ann Gelder on Mastodon: @annbgelder@zirk.us

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So you want to write a Big Philosophical Novel, but don't want to create pages of dry dialog representing various positions. Like Dostoevsky, you can lay out the human stakes of these viewpoints by staging a cringeworthy Simpsons episode in a monastery.

Ann Gelder on Mastodon: @annbgelder@zirk.us