A review by sundew2432
Netochka Nezvanova by Fyodor Dostoevsky

5.0

Fyodor Dostoyevsky has a talent for writing in an impressionistic, grand style (think Monet) and making at least some part of his writing deeply relatable, it’s almost uncanny. I’m in an orchestra myself, we are in fact playing one of Sibelius’s symphonies (no. 2) and the finale is majestic, lyrical, picturesque: a joy to play and hear. It has its ups and down, optimistic and poignant to downright tragedy. It’s an epic like these 200 pages of an unfinished novel. I can see how this was before his other works. this book was delicious (just like anything by him) if that’s a thing, it was my midnight snack idk