Thoughts on: The Idiot

“It wasn’t the New World that mattered…Columbus died almost without seeing it; and not really knowing what he had discovered. It’s life that matters, nothing but life — the process of discovering, the everlasting and perpetual process, not the discovery itself, at all.” The Idiot is one of Dostoyevsky’s most tragic novels I’ve read so…

The Master and Margarita – Mikhail Bulgakov

The Master and Margarita takes place in the same setting where it was written- the USSR at the height of the Stalinist period. During that time, artists had to work under strict censorship and were often subject to imprisonment, exile and sometimes even death. Thus, for Bulgakov, there was never any question of publishing the…

Classics Recommendations

Les Misérables by Victor Hugo "A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in--what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars.” I'm going to start with the longest book on the list. Les Misérables is one of my all-time favourite books and I don’t have enough words…