“And yet I feel that there is something I lack… that I cannot express… something that perhaps is not even in me.” Chapter 1 Arkady Kirsanov returns home […]
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Notes from Underground
“I am a sick man… I am a spiteful man. I am an unattractive man. I believe my liver is diseased.” Part 1: Underground The unnamed narrator, a […]
Russian literature
Demons (The Possessed)
“And the demons begged Him, saying, ‘If you cast us out, send us away into the herd of swine.’” —Matthew 8:31 (Epigraph to Demons) Part One The novel […]