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...advance for her novel because her manuscript was subliterate gibberish. Her lawyer, who implied that Random House's real problem with Collins was that her celebrity had faded since they'd signed her up, could have summed up his case with one question: "You were expecting maybe The Brothers Karamazov...
...Viking; 250 pages; $21.95) is this: J.M. Coetzee, the South African novelist, has placed himself in the turbulent, ironic mind of Fyodor Dostoyevsky. It is 1869; the writer is 49, self-exiled in Dresden at mid-career, with Poor Folk and Crime and Punishment behind him and The Brothers Karamazov far in the future. He is a passionate, tormented idealist, still roiled by the Western liberal notions of social and political freedom that had swept the Russian intelligentsia a generation before. But the new, younger Russian intellectuals are not liberals; they are nihilists and anarchists, and Dostoyevsky is repelled...
...have to wonder, if Playboy editors themselves were so impressed with this woman's intellect, why they didn't decide to have her pose in the nude with a feminist revison of Dostoyevsky's The Sisters Karamazov in her hand? Victoria herself expressed some disappointment that the photo shoot didn't quite stimulate her in the way she thought it would...
...Flying Karamazov Brothers. Pleasesee Thursday's listings.15 December Wednesday
...Flying Karamazov Brothers. Pleasesee Thursday's listings