Russophile Reads is gearing up for a special Readathon series in Fall 2024, featuring the greatest works of one of Russia's -- and one of the world's -- greatest novelists, Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881). Join me in my Dostoevsky Readathon as we celebrate his life and legacy!| Russophile Reads
Throughout The Double Golyadakin gets himself into trouble because he’s never sure how to express himself in public—outside his own head, or outside his own internal monologue. He doesn’t know how to present himself socially—or, in a contemporary phrasing, he doesn’t know which self to present, struggling as he is with a decaying class system, stagnant bureaucracy, Godlessness, materialism, precarity, and dread—all of which have rendered him incapable of appropriate behavior, or e...| Tanner Hauser