On reading Dostoevsky's 'Demons' / 'The Possessed'

[greentea_fairy]

For more than six hundred pages and for four months I didn't understand why Stavrogin was so evil until I sputtered tears into rosehip tea and read his letter calling her to come to him as his nurse:

"Realize, also, that I do not pity you, since I'm calling you, and do not respect you, since I'm waiting for you to come. And yet I call and wait."

Comments

[gauloise]

That sounds like such a beautiful book.

[greentea_fairy]

It is! He proves, again, to be my favourite author.