![]() ![]() But despite being a chaotic jumble, the novel does come together in the end. ![]() It is arguably too long, with too many characters, all striving to be memorable. It doesn’t flow as well as Crime and Punishment, the other Dostoevsky book I’ve read. The first time I read Demons, much of the plot flew over my head. Forster and his Passage to India – the two novels that were assigned to us for study and examination. ![]() It took several re-readings for me to appreciate the poetic genius of Joseph Conrad in Heart of Darkness, such that I now rate him over E.M. A conviction that has been drummed into me from my time doing A-Level English Literature is that you can never truly ‘get’ a novel until you have read it more than once. I have just finished reading Dostoevsky’s Demons for the second time. ![]()
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