I came across Hogg's exceptional book The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner through a recommendation from a friend. The Testament of Gideon Mack that I mentioned in an earlier post, is a kind of homage to Private Memoirs, though the devil character in these two books is rather different. Someone might want to write a Ph.D. thesis about this.. and other devil characters, like the memorable one in Karamazov Brothers.
In Scarlett Thomas' latest book, Our Tragic Universe: Checkhov found Tolstoy's idealism about peasants unfounded. Need to check out Checkhov's short story Peasants.
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