POPA Recon> «One continually wonders why the brothers don't just pull it together.»
> «One continually wonders why the brothers don't just pull it together.» > "Ivan has money, education, and leisure; his torment is the invention of his own mind and thus a kind of self-indulgence." > "The problems of the book are on some level fake: they're the self-inflicted derangements of febrile and dysregulated men." > "Most people are not tortured writers, and it does not feel that the unhingedness of the characters is ever fully earned." > "I'm struck by how anachronistic it all feels today: a country's writers investigating the national soul and the nation's fate through the lens…
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