Dostoyevsky's Horse and the Man

Dostoyevsky was a victim of blows as a young cadet, but also one expected to deliver them as an officer in training. A friend from those days remembered there was no student in the entire institution with less of a military bearing than f m Dostoyevky. He moved clumsily and jerkily. Never was i able to forget it. This little scene appeared to me, so to speak, as an emblem, as something very graphically demonstrated the link between cause and effect. Here, every blow dealt at the animal leaped out of each blow dealt atThe manat the military academy,. dostoyevksi wrote about this, this incident,