A review by avengersing
White Nights by Fyodor Dostoevsky

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

The reason I picked this book up was because I read a tweet, “You think you know about love and then you read White Nights by Dostoevsky.”

I read the Penguin’s black and white edition. It combines the two short stories, White Nights and Bobok. It is translated from Russian by Ronald Meyer.

Now let’s start with the review.

It was such a beautiful read, ah! How it made my heartache! Empathy flowing through my body, with blood! How it soothed me! How can you not love Dostoevsky? It talks about yearning, and unrequited love while exploring the theme of what it means 'to love and be loved'. 

Two lonely people, lonely for different reasons meet and share beautiful ‘white nights’ together embracing each other, listening, and soothing each other.

There are so many of my, new-found, favourite quotes.