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Gustave Flaubert and the realist novel

Gustave Flaubert and the realist novel

Schopenhauer on the human condition and original sin

Schopenhauer on the human condition and original sin

Milan Kundera and the ideal form of love

Milan Kundera and the ideal form of love

Nietzsche’s eternal return

Nietzsche’s eternal return

The tortured poet

The tortured poet

Mary Oliver’s White Flowers and the undiscovered country

Mary Oliver’s White Flowers and the undiscovered country

Sin, sirens, and the irresistible allure of sound

Sin, sirens, and the irresistible allure of sound

Finding meaning in the face of death

Finding meaning in the face of death

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Notes from Underground: Dostoevsky on suffering and the will to live

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Notes from Underground: Dostoevsky on suffering and the will to live

Fyodor Dostoevsky’s novella Notes from Underground instantly draws you in with its opening line, “I am a sick man… I am a wicked man.”

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