The Rebel on Moby-Dick: “How can we imagine anything to follow Moby Dick, The Trial, Zarathustra, The Possessed?”
The Rebel on The Trial: “How can we imagine anything to follow Moby Dick, The Trial, Zarathustra, The Possessed?”
The Rebel on The Possessed: “the era of Chigalevism begins—proclaimed, in The Possessed, by Verkhovensky, the nihilist who claims the right to choose”
The Rebel on Don Juan: “begin by sniggering up their sleeves and end—with Moliere's Don Juan—by laughing to high heaven.”
The Rebel on Pensées: “The Will to Power ends, like Pascal's Pensees, of which it so often reminds us, with a wager.”
The Rebel on Wuthering Heights: “Heathcliff, in Wuthering Heights, would kill everybody on earth in order to possess Cathy, but it would never occur to him to say that murder is reasonable or theoretically defensible.”
The Rebel on Fathers and Sons: “the very term nihilism was invented by Turgeniev in his novel Fathers and Sons, whose hero, Bazarov, was an exact portrayal of this type of man.”
The Rebel on Paradise Lost: “The struggle between Satan and death in Paradise Lost, the favorite poem of the romantics, symbolizes this drama”
The Rebel on Appeal to the Slavs: “Engels, with the approval of Marx, dispassionately accepted this prospect when he wrote in answer to Bakunin's Appeal to the Slavs”
The Rebel on Force and Matter: “They called themselves materialists; their bedside book was Buchner's Force and Matter.”