Travis Timmons’s Reviews > Demons > Status Update

Hold up so so so well on a second reading. Still. The post-modern Russia of Peter Pomerantsev is, of course, already here in full-fledged form in the world of illusions, nihilism, plots-within-plots, conspiracies-within-conspiracies, etc. that Dostoevsky create.

"But observe, madam, observe, the cockroach doesn't complain." (-Lebyadkin)

I just love this novel. It gets even better the second time through. Surely the most "Dostoevskian" of Dostoevsky novels -- you are always in the middle of things, a never-ending series of middles (faltering starts, stops, nesting comments/events, and gossipy chaos).

It's time for a re-read already. I was jonesing--hard.