about ''Herzog'',” Mr. Mailer said. “You have to go back to [[w:Fyodor Dostoevsky|Dostoeyevsky]] to find a parallel, but ''Herzog'' also has so much self-pit
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...reness all that is valid in what one rejects. No reader can be in doubt of Dostoevsky's judgment; he denies no reader a taste of the ambiguous. Bad or inconclusi
...ty on Why It Is Not Wrong to Kill One's Wife. Say that Norman Mailer is no Dostoevsky, who's going to say he is? But to say that he is not is to discriminate, an
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...tions of life, often in striking, disarming, or blasphemous ways. Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Mailer each has his own distinctive concerns and techniques, yet all t
...displays a number of features that ally his work with that of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, some of which are readily apparent, as in ''An American Dream'', and other
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