Patrick Collison on Brothers Karamazov: "I confess I did not love it"
fkasummer · x · 2026-10-12
- Stripe CEO Patrick Collison notes Brothers Karamazov was Einstein's favorite novel — a verdict shared by Freud, Hillary Clinton, and Murakami — and that Dostoevsky was Pope Francis's favorite author, calling it perhaps a case of art molding life. Yet he confesses he did not love the book.
- He frames it as written after Dostoevsky's son Alyosha's death, tackling the problem of evil: Ivan's argument on how children's suffering can coexist with a benevolent God.
- A replier highlights a prescient passage on secular learning dissecting the divine while overlooking the whole.
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