valiah’s Reviews > The Brothers Karamazov > Status Update

"the greater the stupidity, the greater the clarity."

bro cannot escape dysfunctional families

"From sin and the Devil there is no hiding-place, however, not only in the world, but also in the monastery."

i like this challenge of naïve faith and the assumption that christians are all the same in morale and in application. he obviously favors alyosha's worldview over the 'buffoon' or respectable atheists, but also subtly critiques his disconnect from reality & failure to apply faith where it matters (yet)

alyosha is (basically) introduced to performative girls' girls and lesbianism

completely ruins the point of alyosha but i hope him an grushenka get together for the hell of it

one thing about dostoyevsky's novels: dmitri will be passionately in love