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Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821–1881) was a Russian author and journalist. He spent four years in prison, endured forced military service and was nearly executed for the crime of reading works forbidden by the government. He battled a gambling addiction that once left him a beggar, and he suffered ill health, including epileptic seizures. Despite these challenges, Dostoevsky wrote fiction possessed of groundbreaking, even daring, social and psychological insight and power. Novels like Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, and The Brothers Karamazov, have won the author acclaim from figures ranging from Franz Kafka to Ernest Hemingway, Friedrich Nietzsche to Virginia Woolf.
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Bobok - Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Bobok
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BOBOK
BOBOK
A BOBOK IS A SMALL BEAN
Semyon Ardalyonovitch said to me all of a sudden the day before yesterday: Why, will you ever be sober, Ivan Ivanovitch? Tell me that, pray.
A strange requirement. I did not resent it, I am a timid man; but here they have actually made me out mad. An artist painted my portrait as it happened: After all, you are a literary man,
he said. I submitted, he exhibited it. I read: Go and look at that morbid face suggesting insanity.
It may be so, but think of putting it so bluntly into print. In print everything ought to be decorous; there ought to be ideals, while instead of that . . .
Say it indirectly, at least; that’s what you have style for. But no, he doesn’t care to do it indirectly. Nowadays humour and a fine style have disappeared, and abuse is accepted as wit. I do not resent it: but God knows I am not enough of a literary man to go out of my mind. I have written a novel, it has not been published. I have written articles — they have been refused. Those articles I took about from one editor to another; everywhere they refused them: you have no salt they told me. What sort of salt do you want?
I asked with a eer. Attic salt?
They did not even understand, For the most part I translate from the French for the booksellers. I write advertisements for shopkeepers too: Unique opportunity! Fine tea, from our own plantations . . .
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