The pseudonym "Philo Vaihinger" has been abandoned. All posts have been and are written by me, Joseph Auclair.

Monday, November 16, 2015

"Her nostrils were too far apart."

Manuel Komroff in his forward to The Brothers Karamazov, Signet Classics, 1958, foreword copyright 1957.

Describing Anna, 18 years old when Dostoyevsky married her.

He was 45 and, according to Komroff, soon to become the world's greatest novelist.

That's what he says.

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