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3.51 AVERAGE
3.51 AVERAGE
O Fyodor andava muito traumatizado com as suas personas. Interessante
This book was a bit of a let down. I was more interested in the plot than the actual storytelling and then the plot then ends up being completely open to interpretation and I didn’t feel gripped by the characters so ultimately this book didn’t interest me that much. Golyadkin’s inner dialogue is repetitive, disjointed, spiteful and he is pathetically hopeless. I love similar flaws in the underground man and Raskolnikov but with Golyadkin, because the self reflection was less existential and sharp and was more concerned with weaving this story creating this sense of confusion I didn’t enjoy the protagonist’s personal brand of madness as much. However, I feel like this book added to image I have of 19th century St Petersburg that is building in my head for these characters of Dostoyevsky which I very much enjoyed.
i’d heard that dostoyevky’s earlier works were nowhere near on the same level as his more famous books, which he wrote later on in life. so i decided to test it out. and it’s correct. frankly, i didn’t really enjoy this. nor did i find many parts of it very interesting. by the time i got to the last chapter i was just skimming though
So I do understand what this was really all about. I get the claustrophobic, paranoic, helplessness that Golyadkin suffers through as he tries to navigate his life into which a double has appeared and is actively sabotaging him. However all I could think all the way through was "just tell the double to get lost" or ateast stand up for yourself; play him at his own game; stop being so gullible.
I'm a fan of Dostoyevsky's weightier/more popular tomes. However I loathed The Idiot and The Double left me feeling totally dissatisfied.
Just not for me. I like my Russian literature heftier. I like something epic I can sink my teeth into. I'd have liked to sink them into Golyadkin but he never stood still long enough.
I'm a fan of Dostoyevsky's weightier/more popular tomes. However I loathed The Idiot and The Double left me feeling totally dissatisfied.
Just not for me. I like my Russian literature heftier. I like something epic I can sink my teeth into. I'd have liked to sink them into Golyadkin but he never stood still long enough.
dark
emotional
mysterious
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I got through four chapters trying to care about any of the characters in this story. It's not entertaining enough to keep me interested and the story seems to follow this character around for seemingly no reason at all.
He meets with his doctor and (after repeating his name a few dozen times) says basically nothing at all to him whatsoever. Some vague sense that someone he knows has said something untrue at some point. It all felt so nebulous and fruitless I just had to move on.
Dostoyevsky's writing is tedious probably due more to the translation to English rather than the original but it doesn't make me feel anything except bored and impatient.
He meets with his doctor and (after repeating his name a few dozen times) says basically nothing at all to him whatsoever. Some vague sense that someone he knows has said something untrue at some point. It all felt so nebulous and fruitless I just had to move on.
Dostoyevsky's writing is tedious probably due more to the translation to English rather than the original but it doesn't make me feel anything except bored and impatient.
dark
funny
lighthearted
mysterious
medium-paced