“Get Lit” Livestream, 4:30 Pm ET: The Comic Climax of Dostoyevsky's "Demons"

“Get Lit” Livestream, 4:30 pm ET: The Comic Climax of Dostoyevsky's "Demons"

“And I proclaim,” Stepan Trofimovich shrieked, in the last extremity of passion, “and I proclaim that Shakespeare and Raphael are higher than the emancipation of the serfs, higher than nationality, higher than socialism, higher than the younger generation… ”With this outburst at a provincial fête, Stepan Verkhovensky — one of the main characters of Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s Demons — seals his fate as the enemy of political progress, in the eyes of a …

“Get Lit” Livestream, 4:30 pm ET: The Comic Climax of Dostoyevsky’s “Demons”

“And I proclaim,” Stepan Trofimovich shrieked, in the last extremity of passion, “and I proclaim that Shakespeare and Raphael are higher than the emancipation of the serfs, higher than nationality, higher than socialism, higher than the younger generation… ” With this outburst at a provincial fête, Stepan Verkhovensky — one of the main characters of Fyodor...