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Poor Folk
Fattigt folk dostoevsky biography
At the time of its writing, Dostoevsky was facing financial troubles due to his extravagant lifestyle as well as a growing gambling addiction. An epistolary novel, the narrative unfolds through letters between the two main characters, second cousins Makar Devushkin and Varvara Dobroselova.
The novel depicts the lives of poor people and their relationship with the rich. Both of the cousins are poor, and through their correspondence, they develop a deep connection until they reach an impasse: Dobroselova loses her interest in literature and stops communicating with Devushkin after she is proposed to by a rich widower, Mr.
Bykov. Devushkin maintains that he can live without money, but not without literature.
The novel consists of the detailed communications between Devushkin and Dobroselova, as they complain of their terrible living conditions and their inability to escape the circu