![]() ![]() ![]() It's easy to see why Dostoevsky became known as a great observer of human psychology, especially with regard to how people relate to each other: the tendencies toward envy, greed, and resentment, and the need to exercise power over another person to make oneself (temporarily) feel superior. ![]() Notes from the Underground, which is really more of a novella than a short storyĪs I read, I went from "Good God, why did no editor save him from verbosity and ponderousness" to the point of laughing out loud (Notes from the Underground), righteousness (A Gentle Creature), and admiring respect (The Dream of a Ridiculous Man). In this edition, you get (published in chronological order except for The Peasant Marey): By the end of it, I decided to first read Notes from the Underground to get a sense of Dostoevsky's early versus later writings. I finally picked up Crime and Punishment and read the lengthy introduction. ![]()
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