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With Laurie Sheck, a train of thought from Mikhail Bakhtin to Friedrich Nietzsche to Fyodor Dostoevsky to Basel and a donkey, and to Turin and a horse. #111Words #LaurieSheck #MikhailBakhtin #Osteomyelitis #FriedrichNietzsche #FyodorDostoevsky #TheIdiot #PrinceMyshkin #Switzerland #Basel #Donkey #Turin #Horse #MentalBreakdown #Literature #Philosophy https://111-words.ghost.io/with-laurie-sheck-a-train-of-thought-from-mikhail-bakhtin-to-friedrich-nietzsche-to-fyodor-dostoevsky-to-basel-and-a-donkey-and-to-turin-and-a-horse/

With Laurie Sheck, a train of thought from Mikhail Bakhtin to Friedrich Nietzsche to Fyodor Dostoevsky to Basel and a donkey, and to Turin and a horse

According to Laurie Sheck's article "Bakhtin's Freedom", the Russian literary scholar Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975) lived from his youth with chronic osteomyelitis. For me, Sheck's juxtaposition of Bakhtin's thinking and disability immediatelyechoed the biography of Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900). Later, Sheck quotes a passage from Fyodor Dostoevsky's "The Idiot" (1868-1869), the epileptic

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Merry H Dec 5, 2022

Finished listening to that 2002 radio adaptation of "The Idiot." Absolutely smashed my heart into pieces, but my Gods it's extraordinarily beautiful and breathtakingly compassionate. I never stopped caring desperately about all the main characters, including the horrible ones. Really am going to have to read some Dostoevsky. Incredible acting too, especially by Paul Rhys and Roger Allam (but the whole cast is superb). #dostoevsky #TheIdiot #PrinceMyshkin #Rogozhin #PaulRhys #RogerAllam