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      Vladimir Nabokov on The Brothers Karamazov and Crime and Punishment

      In an interview with James Mossman, published in The Listener, October 23, 1969, and reprinted in Strong Opinions:

      If you are alluding to Dostoevsky’s worst novels, then, indeed, I dislike intensely The Brothers Karamazov and the ghastly Crime and Punishment rigamarole. No, I do not object to soul-searching and self-revelation, but in those books the soul, and the sins, and the sentimentality, and the journalese, hardly warrant the tedious and muddled search.

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