Great Masters Series: Will Self on Dostoevsky's Brothers Karamazov with Will Self Following his sold-out talks on Joseph Conrad. Franz Kafka and James Joyce, Will Self is back with another tour de force exploration of Dostoevsky's Brothers Karamazov. Dostoevsky's nightmarish novel, the story of a penn

riters. Going into the study, I keyed my hypotheses off the litany of famous people who I knew had personal or family histories of mental illness. James Joyce, for example, had a daughter who suffered from schizophrenia, and he himself had traits that placed him on the schizophrenia spectrum. (He was soci

a pocket dictionary and a good memory, was our own spines. He assured us that the authors he had selected—Leo Tolstoy, Nikolai Gogol, Marcel Proust, James Joyce, Jane Austen, Franz Kaflca, Gustave Flaubert, and Robert Louis Stevenson-would produce tingling we could detect in our spines. So began the course

can was dancing, Bessie Smith was singing, Georgia O'Keeffe was painting, Harry Houdini was escaping, and Gertrude Stein, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and James Joyce were writing — this was the year that Ulysses was finally published, after nearly a decade of censorship battles, and all 500 copies shipped to the