
#20 – The Underground Spirit
The Martyr Made Podcast
Dostoyevsky's Pre-Exile Stories
In 18 54, dostoyevsky is released from prison. He's collared into the army to write out six more years of exile in the middle of what's now kosakstan. There he befriended a married couple and soon falls in love with the wife, maria. But alas, she loves another man named verganov. In his later novels, he knows better than to blame the world forhe was able to see the truth about his characters,. though he had become one of them.
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