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An Early Work by Dostoevsky

White Nights by Fyodor Dostoevsky

December 9, 2024 by Tracy Leave a Comment

If you’re interested in reading classic literature, this is a good one to start with. Clocking in at under 70 pages (as least according to my Kindle), this novella is told as the diary of an unnamed narrator recounting a few nights with a young woman in Petersburg. Our narrator meets Nastenka on a street one night after rescuing her from a man who was accosting her. He had previously observed her on the bank of a river and noticed her crying, but she ran […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: classic literature, Fyodor Dostoevsky, novella, Romanticism, Russian Literature

Tracy's CBR16 Review No:67 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: classic literature, Fyodor Dostoevsky, novella, Romanticism, Russian Literature ·
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Rody walking with an axe

“There was something awfully unpleasant in that handsome face.”

Crime & Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

May 14, 2021 by Halbs Leave a Comment

The first thing I want to say is that when I made personal journal notes while reading this one, I referred to this world classic as Crime & Punny. For some reason that was just the funniest thing to me every single time over the many months it took me to work through the novel. The second thing I want to say is that this is the fifth Dostoevsky novel I’d read. Even if his writing is frustrating at times, it’s also magnetic. As the […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Fyodor Dostoevsky, Russia

Halbs's CBR13 Review No:12 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Fyodor Dostoevsky, Russia ·
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Forgive Us Our Happiness

The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky

October 3, 2020 by blauracke 2 Comments

If someone were to ask me which book by Dostoevsky would be the best to start with, the most obvious answer would definitely be Crime and Punishment, and indeed it is the first book by him that I myself read as a teenager. It is also the one that hooked me, and that would end up making me read almost all of his works in the following years. Still, Dostoevsky really wrote five great novels, and each one can be recommended as a perfect starting […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: cbr12bingo, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Gateway

blauracke's CBR12 Review No:52 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: cbr12bingo, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Gateway ·
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People

The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky

October 4, 2019 by Halbs Leave a Comment

When I was a freshman in high school I made a new friend that I loved hanging out with. He was unlike anyone I met previously. Any weekend spent at his house led to weeks of stories I could relive of mundane things made memorable. A walk to the gas station for burritos, for example, turned into an odyssey of exploring old train tracks, running from neighborhood dogs, jam sessions, and meeting girls. He was so fun to be around and I felt like an […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Fyodor Dostoevsky, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Russia

Halbs's CBR11 Review No:39 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Fyodor Dostoevsky, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Russia ·
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