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When Dickens met Dostoevsky: a literary mystery

#s:hoaxes #t:article/essay | When I presented my evidence of multiple hoaxing to the Editor of the Dickensian and informed him of A. D. Harvey’s address, he confirmed that it was the same one from which “Dickens’s Villains: A Confession and a Suggestion” had been sent. Much about that article reads differently in the light of knowledge about its author. Dostoevsky’s response to Dickens, especially, now acquires particular salience: 'There were two people in him, he told me: one who feels as he ought to feel and one who feels the opposite. From the one who feels the opposite I make my evil characters, from the one who feels as a man ought to feel I try to live my life. “Only two people?” I asked.'

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