Dostoevsky is difficult to read. Specially for those not much aware of Russian society and culture at that time. I read this book after I read Brothers Karamozof. I think if I could have read it before reading Karamazof I could understand and appreciate the novel better. Not very known books, dialogue has a good comparison of Dostoevsky with other existentialist writers and philosophers, I liked best the comparison with Nietzsche.