Should Fyodor Dostoevsky be counted as one of the "Friends"?
In reviewing a book about Dostoevsky, Chesterton once wrote:
"The one thing this Russian (Dostoevsky) loves is Liberty. The one place where he finds it is in … no, not Christianity… Christ. Compared with that, he cares nothing for anything. He was one of the two or three greatest novelists of the nineteenth century. And he cared for nothing but Christ who had made him free. It is worth thinking about."
As a fan of both Chesterton and Dostoevsky, I'm certainly willing to admit a Russian to the circel fo friends.
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