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The familiar dialectic repeats itself: dreams of love and glory, followed by fits of self-hatred, shame, and spite

when life has the temerity to imitate literature

Dostoevsky set about the masterpiece one could call liminal

a pre-Marxian, non-"scientific" form of socialism commonly designated as "utopian".

In the spring of 1849, Dostoevsky was arrested, tried, and sentenced to Siberian prison and exile for his association with the subversive Petrashevsky circle.