Max Beerbohm vs. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers
Max Beerbohm
1872 – 1956
Sir Henry Maximilian Beerbohm was an English essayist, parodist and caricaturist under the signature Max. He first became known in the 1890s as a dandy and a humorist. He was the drama critic for the Saturday Review from 1898 until 1910, when he relocated to Rapallo, Italy.
"How might one describe Max Beerbohm to someone who knows nothing about him? Well, for a start, one might imagine D.H. Lawrence. Picture the shagginess of Lawren…"
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
1871 – 1922
Fyodor Dostoyevsky was a Russian novelist, short story writer, and philosopher, best known for Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, and The Brothers Karamazov. His works probe psychology, morality, and existential questions in 19th-century Russian society.
"Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or ar…"
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