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  • From: RHONDA MCDONNELL <rhonda_mcdonnell AT msn.com>
  • To: "Percy-L: Literary and Philosophical Discussion" <percy-l AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [percy-l] LITR Slow Read - Chapter 4 - "July Third"
  • Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2014 08:56:20 -0700



I checked Percy's collection at UNC-Chapel Hill, but it doesn't have the Bulkagov book in it.  On the other hand, it doesn't have The Brothers Karamozov either, and we know how central that novel was for him.  So, no illumination from this end either, Jim.


Rhonda McDonnell
Institute for Studies in Pragmaticism
Texas Tech University

"You live in a deranged age, more deranged than usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing." ~Walker Percy~
  
                                    Walker Percy



Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2014 07:53:18 -0700
To: percy-l AT lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [percy-l] LITR Slow Read - Chapter 4 - "July Third"
From: percy-l AT lists.ibiblio.org

Yes, David. That also makes sense because we know that Percy read that book and loved it.
Janet


Jim,

I can't answer your question, but Art also reminds me of the "devil"
Ivan converses with in the Brothers Karamazov.

I, too, am enjoying the discussion.

-David

Quoting Jim Forest <jhforest AT gmail.com>:

> Probably many others on the WP List are following the comments on LITR as
> attentively as I am but, like me, just listening in with immense gratitude
> to those who are speaking up. What a joy it is rereading LITR in good
> company.
>
>
>
> One minor comment. WP?s portrait of the devil (Art Immelman) is strikingly
> similar to Mikhail Bulkagov?s portrait of the devil (Pofessor Woland) in
> The Master & Margarita. Had Percy read Bulgakov?s novel? My guess is yes.
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> Jim Forest
>


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