<div>On 10/3/06, Chris Doss <<a href="mailto:lookoverhere1@yahoo.com">lookoverhere1@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> --- Jerry Monaco <<a href="mailto:monacojerry@gmail.com">monacojerry@gmail.com</a>> wrote: > > > Chris, > > Both Tolstoy and Joyce could write well and > elegantly.  Dostoevsky wrote > with hammer and fist. Not in Russian he doesn't. Why do you hate good art, Jerry? ;) </blockquote></div>And it is exactly here, over this question of how Dostoevsky reads in Russian that I picked up the Wilson-Nabokov letters, where the non-Russian Wilson advocated that Dostoevsky read well in Russian and the Russian Nabokov told Wilson that his (Wilson's and F.D.) Russian was atrocious. But I was as much thinking about the architecture of the novel as a whole as the line by line sentence construction.  You know, you ask me why I hate good art and it is kind of funny because I once had the same reaction to some of Bert Brecht's opinions.  I mean Brecht really hated Beethoven and I think he found much of German art pretentious.  I don't know, maybe in some respects I do hate good art with some of the same reactions that Brecht had to Beethoven, who I love.  Jerry