Stavrogin's Confession and The Plan of The Life of a Great Sinner: With Introductory and Explanatory NotesDostoyevsky, Fyodor
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Stavrogin's Confession and The Plan of The Life of a Great Sinner: With Introductory and Explanatory Notes
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881 -- Translations into English; Russia -- Social life and customs -- Fiction
But _he_ plunges into When I am grown up, I shall
debauchery with an marry not you. So that it is
irresistible desire, but also not necessary to say he dreamt
with fear. The hollowness, of this or that, but he went
dirt, and absurdity of to the lame girl and said to
immorality astonish him. He her this or that. Of what he
gives it all up and after will be and of money. _He beat
terrible crimes he denounces her_ _because the money did
himself with bitterness. not increase._
He talked to her about the
reading of Karamzin, tales,
etc. He was taught French and
German by the young lady, the
old, etc. They went for their
lessons to other children
(there they made fun of him).
Because the lame girl did not
flare into a passion for
Karamzin—he beat her.
He knew the whole Bible—he
told her.
—The history of the world—but
was weak in geography.
(Dreams of travels, Kul and He meets Umnov who proves that
the lame girl.) They read he knows more than he. Coming
novels.—He is highly developed home he tells the lame girl
and knows a great deal about that Umnov is a fool and knows
many things. He knows Gogol nothing and gave the lame girl
and Pushkin. He never pretends a slight beating; after that
tenderness for the lame girl he pays great attention to
until the time when he carried Umnov.
her in his arms.—
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Do it—cut me off, I don’t want you to study together with my children.
—When the old couple used to be very drunk and roll about, the lame girl
used to cry over them. At first he beat her, but then ceased.
—They killed a goose.—
—The Bible. Jacob bowed three times. He gets muddled with the Bible. The
lame girl laughs.
—The habit of beating her; he did not want to kiss her.
(The lame girl was not frozen
to death.
They found her. But she
disappeared from the house of
the Alfonskys.)
His incessant thinking. From the time he began to remember himself: What
shall I be and how shall I do it all?
Then doubt: is power alone worth everything and could one not be the
slave of all the strongest.
He began training his will power. He is stung by passions.
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