The Importance of Reading a Novel

Dostoyevsky is a writer that is venerated on a level so high that many readers feel that he is writing directly to them. You have to laugh and cry with this book because it's a strange experience to have something so haunting and so funny in the exact same paragraph. There's even a paper called the Voices of Legion, the Narrator of the Bizest. And it talks about how the narrator specifically withholds information from the reader for quite some time in this story. So stick with it. It'll all be clear in the end.

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