Tag: Dostoyevsky

• The Dostoyevski of Rock

  

  Lou Reed saw rock music as dark literature. “Let’s take Crime and Punishment,” he said, “and turn it into a rock and roll song.“

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  October 26, 2020

  ROCK STAR MEMORIAM

  ‘Walk on the Wild Side’, Dostoyevsky, Edgar Allan Poe, Hubert Selby Jr., Laurie Anderson, Lou Reed, Velvet Underground, William S. Burroughs

• Book on alienation still an ‘Angry Young Man’ classic

  

  ‘The Outsider’ written by a 24-year-old Englishman in the Reading Room of the British Museum while he was living in a sleeping bag on London’s Hampstead Heath.

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  December 5, 2019

  ENGLISH LITERATURE

  Albert Camus, Alienation, Angry Young Men, Colin Wilson, Dostoyevsky, ENGLISH LITERATURE, Famous writers, Franz Kafka, Hemingway, Hermann Hesse, Jean-Paul Sartre, Nietzsche, Self-discovery, T.E. Lawrence, The Outsider