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alivengineer
2y ago
this tbh. the only reason crime and punishment isnt a short story (which it was planned to be) is that dostoyevsky lost a lot of money drinking and gambling. so he stretched it out every way he could conseivably do so, as he was paid by con
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alivengineer
2y ago
Signed up to write this comment. Hi folks. It appals me how much praise dostoyevsky and such still get, without any attention to a lot of the context around it. The prime reason his (and of most other russian writers) legacy and importance