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Both the liberals and the revolutionaries hate the old order The old order is hardly perfect, as Dostoevsky shows. Husbands beat their wives.
Some priests are holy fools. Neither liberals nor revolutionaries believe in the Christian God. Neither know nor love the Russian people. Liberals lack all conviction, so they give way to the passionate intensity of their revolutionary compatriots. Liberals agree with the revolutionaries on the ends, but are squeamish about the timing and suspicious of the violence perpetrated under the revolutionary banners.
Yet the liberals hate the old order more than they worry about the questionable means that revolutionaries use. The most curious case of liberals abetting the revolution, among many, is Andrei Antonovich von Lembke, the new governor. Called to reduce the province to peace, he grasps the problem of public order and revolution.
Yet his liberalism paralyzes him politically. Von Lembke invites Pyotr Stepanovich to his study in order to disarm him and show off his collection of revolutionary tracts. Von Lembke and his fellow-travelers think that they can control and channel the revolution, but it slips their bounds and annihilates them or at least leaves them behind.
The liberals plan a fete for the town, but the revolutionaries turn the event into a hilarious mockery of the old order. Liputin, the emcee and a cell member, starts the event with a ribald poem. They plant people in the audience to cough, sniffle and heckle at the serious performances of the liberals.
Under the cover of this well-attended celebration, revolutionaries and their henchmen burn down the town and murder inconvenient innocents. Socialism, cosmopolitanism, and atheism go hand in hand, and all point toward the authority of reason and science.
The alternative to this modern syndrome is a national horizon, which gives meaning to human life and can connect individuals to eternity. Shatov observes:. If a great nation does not believe that the truth is in it alone… if it does not believe that it alone is able and called to resurrect and save everyone with its truth, then it at once ceases to be a great nation, and at once turns into ethnographic material. Pyotr invents a story that Shatov is preparing to denounce the revolutionary group to public authorities. Members of the cell object.
Shatov will tell no tales and take no action against the revolutionaries. All members of the cell, taken with pangs of conscience, confess to the crime after authorities discover the body. Perhaps revolutionaries will be so stricken with conscience that they will limit their own activities and methods. Perhaps, that is, they will come to believe only means consistent with conscience are necessary. Two important facts speak against the hopefulness that conscience itself can limit revolutionary ambitions.
First, Shatov and his family are all dead. Second, the revolutionaries did not feel guilty about the other murders including the murder of a lame woman and an innocent housekeeper or the burning of the town itself.
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Conscience is muted in those taken with modern ideology. Ideology itself seems to be a demon. Revolutionaries feel the pull of honor from adhering to their ideology and they fear being left behind; they see what can happen if they show insufficient zeal for the cause. Under this pressure, they will do things that they know are wrong. Only scattered commoners in the novel—those uncorrupted by the ideology and unblinkingly confident in their attachment to country and God—offer an effective if unsystematic and apolitical check on the socialist revolution.
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Dostoevsky believed that Europeans lost a sense of their nation and God as a result of the ways that reason and science delivered material plenty and comfort. Science alleviates human physical suffering. Forgetting eternity and mortality, people cease to understand or concern themselves with their spiritual sufferings.
Rich people can afford liberalism and a little revolution their prosperity comes from this progressive movement, after all , but they cannot know where it will all lead. Living with physical suffering, Russian peasants see their spiritual suffering as well and work together as a community to love others in suffering till each tear they cry becomes a rose.
Several peasants and simple women unsuccessfully attempt to redeem those taken with modern ideology, so hard are the hearts of those nihilists.
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The most crucial example is the conversion of Stephan Trofimovich, a Russian liberal and absentee father of Pyotr Stepanovich. The biography of Stephan Trofimovich literally frames the book. After the humiliation at the fete, Stephan leaves town to wander. On his sojourn, Russian peasants give him a lift and one peasant woman, an aspiring nurse and Bible-hawker, Sofya Matveevna, nurses him and preaches him the Gospel.
His soft heart accepts the words—and for the first time he identifies with the Russians and loves the people. Here is a voice we have never heard—a voice full of poetry and rage, exploding onto the page with urgency and force. Tommy Orange has written a stunning novel that grapples with a complex and painful history, with an inheritance of beauty and profound spirituality, and with a plague of addiction, abuse, and suicide.
He is an enrolled member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma. A devastating debut novel.
Tommy Orange is a new writer with an old heart. This is a novel about what it means to inhabit a land both yours and stolen from you, to simultaneously contend with the weight of belonging and unbelonging. There is an organic power to this book — a revelatory, controlled chaos. Tommy Orange writes the way a storm makes landfall.
Maybe ever. Tommy Orange is a stylist with substance, a showboater with a deeply moral compass.
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I want to call him heir to Gertrude Stein by way of George Saunders, but he is even more original than that. This book will make your heart swell. Remember his name.
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The propulsion of both the overall narrative and its players are breathtaking as Orange unpacks how decisions of the past mold the present, resulting in a haunting and gripping story. A chronicle of domestic violence, alcoholism, addiction, and pain, the book reveals the perseverance and spirit of the characters Unflinching candor