Can you say "character filibuster"? Someday, when I'm more patient....
“I am big; it’s the pictures that got small”In Considering the Lobster, David Foster Wallace observes that the “thing about Dostoevsky’s characters is that they are alive" (264). They are, in fact, larger than life, and Wallace goes on to bemoan the fact that so many “of the novelists of our own pla...