Björn recenserade Satans Dostojevskij av Atiq Rahimi
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Dostoevsky fan living in wartime Kabul kills nasty old woman, becomes convinced that he's Raskolnikov and spends the book trying to work through his guilt and get arrested - but who'll arrest someone for doing something as inconsequential as murder, and of an unwed woman at that? Are you sure we shouldn't give him a medal instead, or at least declare him a martyr? How does the old Karamazov nonsense of "if God doesn't exist, everything is permitted" hold up in a society where everything is permitted and God is everywhere condoning it? Crosses Dostoevsky with Kafka's Vor dem Gesetz and Hedayat's fever visions - perhaps a bit too willfully intertextual at times, but quite effecive.
Dostoevsky fan living in wartime Kabul kills nasty old woman, becomes convinced that he's Raskolnikov and spends the book trying to work through his guilt and get arrested - but who'll arrest someone for doing something as inconsequential as murder, and of an unwed woman at that? Are you sure we shouldn't give him a medal instead, or at least declare him a martyr? How does the old Karamazov nonsense of "if God doesn't exist, everything is permitted" hold up in a society where everything is permitted and God is everywhere condoning it? Crosses Dostoevsky with Kafka's Vor dem Gesetz and Hedayat's fever visions - perhaps a bit too willfully intertextual at times, but quite effecive.