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Oblivion
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This was one gorgeous piece of writing.
With philosophical-metaphysical finesse and unbearable lyricism, Lebedev uncovers personal, collective and to some extent even ontological memory, peeling off the layers of mad oblivion. Lacking any obtrusive moralization, he courageously shows how beneath the surface of what we call "the spirit of the times", there is a deeper and clear dimension of good and evil, or, to paraphrase Lev Shestov: freedom and sin.
One of the best books I've read on the horrors of the Soviet past that have made their way into Russian present because they were not loudly enough called what they were: the devil's work.
With philosophical-metaphysical finesse and unbearable lyricism, Lebedev uncovers personal, collective and to some extent even ontological memory, peeling off the layers of mad oblivion. Lacking any obtrusive moralization, he courageously shows how beneath the surface of what we call "the spirit of the times", there is a deeper and clear dimension of good and evil, or, to paraphrase Lev Shestov: freedom and sin.
One of the best books I've read on the horrors of the Soviet past that have made their way into Russian present because they were not loudly enough called what they were: the devil's work.
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January 3, 2023
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January 3, 2023
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January 8, 2023
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""The spirit of the times was fully realized in them: not the general & superficial one that is in the air and forms an era's ambience-fashion, slogans, speeches, technological innovations-but what is deeper and closer to the heart: the concepts of good and evil, the concepts of human and inhuman, the dominant note of relations, what one man can do to another-&the times will accept those deeds as a matter of course.""
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January 14, 2023
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"we think that meekness means being ready to bear everything, but that is our pride speaking, our accountant's concept of justice and revenge; true meekness is where the contradiction is gone--bear it or not, put up with it or not, where there is an equal possibility of one or the other--but you do not raise your voice against God."
Lebedev is one of my most remarkable discoveries in months."
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Lebedev is one of my most remarkable discoveries in months."
January 28, 2023
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Finished Reading
