Andrew Blackman
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Continuing my journey through Russian literature: if you want to see the introduction and reviews of earlier stories, click here.
Bobok by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Not my favourite Dostoevsky, this one. It’s quite a funny little story about a man who goes to a graveyard and hears the dead people talking to each other [...]
A man dies slowly and in great agony. He ponders the meaning of life, and this increases his anguish: even worse than the physical pain of a slow, lingering death is the spiritual anguish of realising he has wasted his life.
Tolstoy’s main target here is dishonesty and hypocrisy. This is established from the [...]
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