ashleycarey is currently reading The Idiot.
I’m 27 years old, female, from the United States. I’ve been a DailyLit member since February 25, 2008. My reading interests include philosophy.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky - People I want to meet when I die
I couldn't agree more. The Brothers Karamazov is awesome. Ivan is an excellent character, but I really loved Smerdyakov. I loved how cunning and malicious he was. His character was the vehicle by which the story was able to be propelled into such deep philosophical realms. Since he was the one who was guilty of the murder, we are able to focus our hatred on him and sympathize with Dmitri and Ivan in a deeper way since we know they are innocent (more or less).
Fyodor Dostoyevsky - People I want to meet when I die
I adore Dostoevsky, and I am so happy to have finally found a handful of other people who have read his books. I've tried every possible strategy to get my friends to read his stuff, even bribery, but none of it has worked so far.
Anyway, regarding his use of "indecipherable details," sometimes I wonder if he is testing his readers to see how dedicated they are. He was obviously a very passionate man who was incredibly dedicated to his philosophies and "original ideas," he even suffered imprisonment and a death sentence for them, so sometimes I think that he is trying to discern a similar dedication in others. Ya know what I mean?