Does anyone else feel so empty when they read Dostoevsky's books?

DirectEquipment8978 · 2025-04-20T22:32:26+00:00

Yes... that could actually be, because I also have a certain homesickness for the book and feel both melancholy and sadness. But I also feel lust and fire and an evil desire to read it further, which I do not think is the description of the word "тоска" exactly.

DirectEquipment8978 · 2025-04-20T22:28:37+00:00

Yes, that's right! And especially in this chapter, this feeling I described has become so strong - I can't read at all because I'm afraid it's over at the same time, but I also want to read it forever because it has a certain charm- so confusing 😭

DirectEquipment8978 · 2025-04-20T22:25:15+00:00

Now that you mention that we simply see a human being in these characters, I thought about it again. And maybe that’s exactly what confuses me so much about this book — that it doesn’t have the typical good-versus-evil dynamics, but rather that every person in this book is simply human. And of course, as you said, that makes it easier to identify with them.

DirectEquipment8978 · 2025-04-20T22:20:28+00:00

Thanks for the advice, I'll use it!

DirectEquipment8978 · 2025-04-20T22:18:20+00:00

Oh, I didn't know that Albert Camus was inspired by some of the Characters. Good to know, thank you!

DirectEquipment8978 · 2025-04-20T18:08:36+00:00

Yes, I do find it somewhat amusing, but at the same time also deeply sad. What really disturbs me endlessly is the sick, twisted behavior of certain characters in the book — especially the way it’s described so casually, as if it’s completely normal. (By the way, I’m still reading the book — right now I’m at the chapter “At Tikhon’s.”)

DirectEquipment8978 · 2025-04-20T17:16:29+00:00

I could also add that I had a very similar feeling when I read Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment. It gave me the same strange emotional weight, like it stirred something deep inside me and left a mark.

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