"Do you know that ages will pass and mankind will proclaim in its wisdom and science that there is no crime and, therefore, no sin, but that there are hungry people?"
I think thay Demons is actually his greatest (and most relevant) novel. I've never found The Grand Inquisitor or The Brothers Karamazov that compelling, and Ive read it probably four times.
Oh Demons is amazing, its about how young leftist nihilists are leading boomer liberals who want to seem relevant around by the nose (one time literally). Its exactly our times.
Just Raimondo was a huge fan, he referenced it in his work relatively frequently.
IMO Crime & Punishment is also quite a lot better than Karamazov, though I would say I read The Idiot again last year and am cooler on it than I was in the past, I cant remember how long it had been since I read it probably at least 7 years. I had thought that the bigger theme was how immoral high society was but in reality all the women are just crazy (well the two main women he is stuck between and the mother of one of them)
Its also interesting to note I reread The Adolescent last year, for only the second time, and was also way cooler on that than the first time. In that instance, 1) Dostoevsky is pretending to be a bad writer (its first person from a bad writer) 2) the narrator is basically an incel, so 20 or even 10 years ago it was a deep insight into how unhappy young men think, now its something we've heard way too much about and are tired of.
I should add, Karamazov is certainly better than 99+% of novels that have ever been written lol, but as an absolutely Dostoevsky fanatic, I think it is overrated
I think thay Demons is actually his greatest (and most relevant) novel. I've never found The Grand Inquisitor or The Brothers Karamazov that compelling, and Ive read it probably four times.
I actually haven't picked up Demons yet. But Brothers is as good as any novel I've ever read, especially the first half.
Oh Demons is amazing, its about how young leftist nihilists are leading boomer liberals who want to seem relevant around by the nose (one time literally). Its exactly our times.
Just Raimondo was a huge fan, he referenced it in his work relatively frequently.
IMO Crime & Punishment is also quite a lot better than Karamazov, though I would say I read The Idiot again last year and am cooler on it than I was in the past, I cant remember how long it had been since I read it probably at least 7 years. I had thought that the bigger theme was how immoral high society was but in reality all the women are just crazy (well the two main women he is stuck between and the mother of one of them)
Its also interesting to note I reread The Adolescent last year, for only the second time, and was also way cooler on that than the first time. In that instance, 1) Dostoevsky is pretending to be a bad writer (its first person from a bad writer) 2) the narrator is basically an incel, so 20 or even 10 years ago it was a deep insight into how unhappy young men think, now its something we've heard way too much about and are tired of.
I should add, Karamazov is certainly better than 99+% of novels that have ever been written lol, but as an absolutely Dostoevsky fanatic, I think it is overrated
*Justin Raimondo, obviously. I thought this let you edit apparently not