The Value of Reading a Dostoevsky Novel

You're uniquely collecting things that speak to you and your worldview and help you be a better person. We do this by meeting characters okay now sometimes the characters are not realisticOkay so if we read a Dostoevsky novel not always but i'm thinking mainly crime and punishment he can reach some really Shakespearean heights of psychological complexity. If we have a realist novel in front of us such as middle march for example meet the characters OK spend time learning their names learn what makes them tick see them before you in your mind's eye as though they are real people because in a sense they are Elliot like all great writers infused aspects of herself into all of her characters Tolstoy was Anna