Jesse Hilson’s Reviews > Dostoevsky: The Stir of Liberation, 1860-1865 > Status Update

We’ve gotten to the lengthy chapter breaking down Notes from Underground, which according to Frank, was the germ of the entire five-volume biography. He was just going to write about the novella, then realized he had to give biographical, literary, philosophical, and cultural context to Dostoevsky’s writing; hence the biography.

He just essentially discovered roulette and Apollinaria Suslova, and a great feeling of sourness has descended upon these pages. A forecasting of masochistic masturbatory doom.