If you read classics, 19th century Russian and French classics lately for me, there’s an entire career in comparing and contrasting the cycle of political unheaval.ĭostoevsky is too complex of a writer to pigeonhole his works with any one interpretation or theory, with that said there is no denying how alarmingly relevant Demons ’ narrative of ideological dissolution is. There is already an article that does exactly that. But I’m not about to spend my time making a bunch of overly simplistic comparisons of the chaotic events of Dostoevsky’s novel to the mess of current American politics. It was equally as strange to read the novel over the last couple weeks, which included a white nationalist riot at the Capitol. It is a strange feeling to be writing about Demons on the day Trump leaves office.
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