“Although Pulcheria Alexandrova was forty-three, her face still retained traces of her former beauty; she looked much younger than her age, indeed, which is almost always the case with women who retain sensitivity of spirit, sensitiveness and pure sincereness of heart to old age. We add in parenthesis that to preserve all this is theContinue reading “RKS RUSSIAN LITERATURE: The Key to Youth for Women (Fyodor Dostoevsky)”
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RKS RUSSIAN LITERATURE: Fear and Loathing Overcomes the Double Murderer (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
“Fear gained more and more mastery over him, especially after this second, quite unexpected murder. He longed to run away from the place as fast as possible. And if at that moment if he had been capable of seeing and reasoning more correctly, if he had been able to realise all the difficulties of hisContinue reading “RKS RUSSIAN LITERATURE: Fear and Loathing Overcomes the Double Murderer (Fyodor Dostoevsky)”
RKS RUSSIAN LITERATURE: A Criminal’s Failure of Will and Reasoning (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
“Almost every criminal is subject to a failure of will and reasoning power by a childish and phenomenal heedlessness at the very instant when prudence and caution are most essential. It was his conviction that this eclipse of reason and failure of willpower attacked a man like a disease, developed gradually and reached its highestContinue reading “RKS RUSSIAN LITERATURE: A Criminal’s Failure of Will and Reasoning (Fyodor Dostoevsky)”
RKS RUSSIAN LITERATURE: Too Many Pots of Vodka and High-Flown Speeches (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
“Evidently Marmeladov was a familiar figure here and he had most likely acquired his weakness for high-flown speeches from the habit of frequently entering into conversation with strangers of all sorts in the tavern. This habit develops into a necessity in some drunkards, and especially in those who are looked after sharply and kept inContinue reading “RKS RUSSIAN LITERATURE: Too Many Pots of Vodka and High-Flown Speeches (Fyodor Dostoevsky)”
RKS RUSSIAN LITERATURE: Should He Murder the Old Hag? (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
‘I want to attempt a thing like that and I am frightened by these trifles’, he thought with an odd smile. ’Hm…yes. all is in a man’s hands and he lets it all slip from cowardice, that’s an axiom. It would be interesting to know what it is men are most afraid of. Taking aContinue reading “RKS RUSSIAN LITERATURE: Should He Murder the Old Hag? (Fyodor Dostoevsky)”
RKS Russian Literature: A Dreadful Absence of Both Good and Evil (Nikolay Gogol)
“No one had seen him, even once, being any different from what he always was, whether on the street or at home. Had he but once showed any concern for anything, had he got roaring drink and burst out laughing in his drunken state, had he even abandoned himself to wild grotesque revelry of theContinue reading “RKS Russian Literature: A Dreadful Absence of Both Good and Evil (Nikolay Gogol)”
RKS Russian Literature: A Russian Philanthropic Swindle (Nikolay Gogol)
“For instance, having set up some philanthropic society for the poor and having contributed considerable sums to it, we lose no time in commemorating such a praiseworthy event by throwing a dinner for all the leading dignitaries of the town, thereby expending, of course, half the sums that have been contributed. With what remains, aContinue reading “RKS Russian Literature: A Russian Philanthropic Swindle (Nikolay Gogol)”
RKS Russian Literature: Russian Upper Class Corrupted by French Language (Nikolay Gogol)
“It is not inappropriate to observe that the conversation of both ladies was interlarded with a great many foreign words and sometimes entire long sentences in French. But however filled the author is with veneration of the salutary benefits conferred on Russia by the French language, however filled with veneration towards our higher society’s praiseworthyContinue reading “RKS Russian Literature: Russian Upper Class Corrupted by French Language (Nikolay Gogol)”
RKS Russian Literature: Lady Pleasant in All Respects (Nikolay Gogol)
“This name she had received in a legitimate manner, for, indeed, she spared nothing to make herself amiable to the nth degree. Although, of course, through the amiability there would dart-oh! a sudden flash of the female character! And although sometimes out of every pleasant word of hers there would stick!-oh! such a pin. AndContinue reading “RKS Russian Literature: Lady Pleasant in All Respects (Nikolay Gogol)”
RKS Russian Literature: Women Showing Their “Possessions” to Lead a Man to Ruin (Nikolay Gogol)
“The waists were pulled tight, with contours that were very firm, and pleasing to the eye (it must be noted that in general, all the ladies that lived in the town that will remain nameless were rather plump, but laced themselves so artfully and had such pleasant manners that their stoutness escaped all notice). EverythingContinue reading “RKS Russian Literature: Women Showing Their “Possessions” to Lead a Man to Ruin (Nikolay Gogol)”
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