#20 – The Underground Spirit
The Martyr Made Podcast
Dostoevsky's House of the Dead
In 18 62, two years after coming back to petersburg, he publishes the house of the dead. It's a huge hit, and it brings him back to the attention of the literary world. In 18 63, he travels to western europe and starts up an affair with a younger woman there. And while he's on that trip, maria comes down sick,. And not long after he comes back, she dies. Very soon after that dostoevsky's brother michael, to whom he was very close, also died. He found himself the sole parent now of maria's son, his stepson, as well as the single responsible provider for his brother's
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