I did two things after finishing with this book. - 1)Strengthened my resolve to finish Crime and Punishment and read the rest of Dostoyevsky's works without any inner grumbling. - 2)Looked up Albert Camus' background and profile on the internet.Yes Dostoyevsky was one of Camus' influences. If you r...
Nutshell: proto-hipster suffering from hepatic encephalopathy throws tantrums and advances retrograde polemics.Some of Dostoevsky's ugly politics leak out of the diaper of the fiction here, especially the pocvennicestvo ideas. I understand that Chernyshevsky is vulnerable to critique, for instance...
Never be fooled by book size when it comes to Dostoevsky! This novella was just under 100 pages long so I figured it would take me just a couple of hours to read. I was obviously wrong but I enjoyed the read. The prose is extremely dense so I had to read it slower than I read other books. The protag...
There are many ways to take a theme and make an existential point without boring the reader to tears. Of course each reader is different, boredom is to taste, and perhaps I'm a literary heathen.
This book is about a frustrated, powerless man with a disturbed mind and totaling lacking in any social skills. Reading about a person such as this is more repulsive than reading about a dangerous criminal since a story about a violent criminal usually has the makings of a mystery or thriller. Thi...
This is a really interesting book, I really enjoyed the depth of it and unlike most of Dostoyevsky's books, this story is really short and fast to read. As a psychology student I find the main character quite interesting to analyze... it's a really good depiction of narcissism.
Read as a Project Gutenberg electronic text.I remind myself that reading a first, whether it's Gertrude Stein, James Joyce, or e. e. cummings, may be a tedious look backward. I don't think this would be published these days because it's not very interesting, but as an early example of its genre and ...
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