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A review by casparb
Winter Notes on Summer Impressions by Fyodor Dostoevsky
3.0
A very odd choice. Alma seem to push it as a novel but it's really more of a dramatised diary entry. Dusty pushes it forward with his vignettes and so forth but I suspect it won't be liked by all. Perhaps 2.5.
There is writing to enjoy here and I like certain scenes of his. Slightly troubles me insofar as I am at times reminded of Orwell (D+OIP&L), though Ф.Д. is of course eighty or so years ahead there.
I think what could rescue this is if I could decide on how to read the tone of our dear narrator. Fyodor is difficult to read as an author/persona, insofar as I'm unsure if there is a difference at all. Are we to read it as such? I think it is better enjoyed that way. One for the Dusty completionists I think.
There is writing to enjoy here and I like certain scenes of his. Slightly troubles me insofar as I am at times reminded of Orwell (D+OIP&L), though Ф.Д. is of course eighty or so years ahead there.
I think what could rescue this is if I could decide on how to read the tone of our dear narrator. Fyodor is difficult to read as an author/persona, insofar as I'm unsure if there is a difference at all. Are we to read it as such? I think it is better enjoyed that way. One for the Dusty completionists I think.