Note: This review was written on Nov 18th 2007, a week after my twenty-first birthday. Excuse the youthful clumsiness of my style.Matters of Life and DeathOften I used stop people in the streets, shake them frantically on the shoulders and slap them on the face, shouting again and again: “Is ther...
Creo que "El adolescente" muchas veces queda olvidada entre todas las obras de Dostoievski. Tengo la sensación de que se considera una obra menor, pero no lo es ni por asomo. Es mi favorita después de "Demonios", por encima de crímenes, castigos, idiotas y Karmazovs. Muy recomendable para entende...
Split into two sets of stories - those that take place in Ukraine and those in Russia, this is a collection that takes pride of place on my bookshelf. The theme of each story tends to deal with the darker aspects of human nature – depravity, poverty, the squandering of talent and opportunity, gro...