Poor Folk is an epistolary novel -- that is, a tale told as a
series of letters between the characters. And oh, what characters
these are Makar Dievushkin Alexievitch is a copy writer, barely
squeaking by; Barbara Dobroselova Alexievna works as a seamstress,
and both face the sort of everyday humiliation society puts upon
the poor. These are people respected by no one, not even by
themselves. These are folks too poor, in their circumstances, to
marry; the love between them is a chaste and proper thing, a love
that brings some readers to tears. But it isn't maudlin, either;
Fyodor Dostoevsky has something profound to say about these people
and this circumstance. And he says it very well. When the book was
first published a leading Russian literary critic of the day --
Belinsky -- prophesied that Dostoevsky would become a literary
giant. It isn't hard to see how he came to that conclusion, and in
hindsight, he was surely was correct.
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