Dec 28, 2024
It is hard for me to put into words everything that I experienced during the roughly month-long period in which I read Demons, by Fyodor Dostoevsky. It was a masterfully written, extraordinary novel which engrossed me completely from start to finish, despite its...
Dec 7, 2024
This anthology of stories from Fyodor Dostoevsky took me on a literary roller coaster ride from start to finish. Of the three stories in this collection (White Nights, A Gentle Creature and The Dream of a Ridiculous Man) I most enjoyed A Gentle Creature. Perhaps,...
Oct 19, 2024
The Double, is an enthralling journey into the mind of a man descending into a delusional rabbit hole in his life. Suffering from bouts of paranoia, and mysterious lapses in his memory, Dostoevsky masterfully creates a schizophrenic protagonist in Mr. Golyadkin, who...
Aug 25, 2023
The Gambler is another literary masterpiece from Fyodor Dostoevsky. It is an humorous (I literally laughed out loud several times), entertaining read from cover to cover. What I enjoyed most was the colorful interplay between the, at times, outrageous cast of...
Jun 13, 2021
What can I say about The Brothers Karamazov that has not already been said? I must confess I have very complicated feelings about this the most famous opus of Fyodor Dostoevsky. On the one hand I found The Brothers Karamazov to be masterfully written. Not only due to...
Kiran Dellimore
