#reading & thinking about his thoughts. “Camus remarks, display a density, a threedimensionality, very unusual in contemporary literature. The significant literature of our time, he continues, goes back to Dostoevsky rather than to Tolstoy. Its heroes are passionate, gesticulating shadows meditating upon human fate. Camus brilliantly contrasts Dostoevsky's young women in The Possessed with Tolstoy's Natasha Rostova: The distinction is like that between a film and stage character: the presence is spiritual, incorporeal.” ~Georg Lukás

meditating shadows 🪽