![]() ![]() At some point, I made the discovery and accepted that this is what had moved me to the point of tears while I read about Father Zosima, the confessor ( The Brothers Karamazov), or the homeless Swiss girl, Marie ( The Idiot.) ![]() Little did I know, Dostoevsky’s great works contained implicit, and sometimes rather explicit, Eastern Orthodox theology. I was drawn to God in an emotional and inexplicable way, rather than by a rational sense of obligation or a sense that I ought to. I experienced a wonderful deepening of my faith post-Dostoevsky, attending Catholic Mass without fail and feeling invested in my faith not unlike one of Dostoevsky’s characters. I went on to dabble in The Idiot and The Brothers Karamazov, although admittedly not devoting the necessary amount of time to either of the two. Particularly, a devout Russian peasant and a Christ figure named Sonya, and main-character, criminal Raskolnikov’s interaction left me speechless. The book struck me unlike anything I had previously read. In February 2018, I read Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky’s work Crime and Punishment in an academic setting. ![]()
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