Word: doestoevskian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...writers who face the future in the uncertain terms of the journalist: event-ridden, self conscious, and without a philosophy strong enough to bear the burden of past and future instead she seeks refuge in the present, a present she neither loves nor hates. With nothing so inspired as Doestoevskian contempt, she only disapproves. Lessing, with all her social conscience, simply hasn't got the consciousness, historical or prophetic, to tell us anything we haven't heard before, As for posterity, what will be her longevity? Nothing, as the past several years have proved only too-well, is so quickly...
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