Word: alyosha
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Donskoy's way with children is as remarkable. Half his cast was children, and he treated them like adults with the result that there is little cute or faked about their performances. Though Alyosha Lyorsky acts with great charm, Young Gorky is the least convincing of the children. He is too often posed. Sometimes, when he should apparently be silently storing up observations as befits the future founder of Socialist Realism, he just stares. Similarly, S. Tikhonravov, as the anarchist lodger, falls victim to the Soviet preferences for gallant poses...
...with these questions, the Outsider's horizon clouds over with the problem of evil. Dostoevsky, in The Brothers Karamazov, reduced it to its classic essence, the tortured cry of a single innocent child. If the order of the universe depends on that cry, argues Ivan with his brother Alyosha, "I don't accept God's world," and "I most respectfully return him the entrance ticket." Neither Dostoevsky nor other Outsiders, according to Wilson, are rebels without a cause; they want desperately to find a "way of salvation" that will allow them to accept God's world...