Christi Williams’s Reviews > Wonder Confronts Certainty: Russian Writers on the Timeless Questions and Why Their Answers Matter > Status Update

“The English wrote about manners, the Russians about the soul. Against our wills we are drawn in, whirled around, blinded, suffocated, and at the same time filled with giddy rapture…. Russians realize we are souls, tortured, unhappy souls, whose only business is to talk, to reveal, to confess…”