Letters Leading up to Poor Folk (1838-1846) I just reread Poor Folk, published when Dostoevsky was twenty-four. Twenty-four? How did he have such a deep sense of psychology at twenty-four? I found a clue in his letters. He writes this to his brother, Mikhail, in 1839: “I am learning a good deal about ‘what is man and what isContinue reading
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About My goal in writing this blog is to apprentice myself under Fyodor Dostoevsky by reading chronologically all of his writings available in English and conversing with them from a writer’s perspective.
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