Dan Sumners
April 2011
Murder Ballad
The combustion engine is crude, a barely harnessed explosion upon which the conveyed rides as if it didn’t exist. Yet the car occupies an exalted space in a human being’s life: people name them; lavish upon them more affection than they do their sexual partner; become emotionally attached to the fate of metal, glass and plastic.
• Fiction
May 2007
Novels are novels and films are films
This adaptation comes either from a cursory reading and understanding of Dostoyevsky’s novel, or, more likely, an impulse to bring it to a wider audience that chooses to ignore the fact that the only way one can truly interact with Dostoyevsky is through his writing.
