Phew!
From political fiction to historical nonfiction to classical poetry and existentialist fiction(Poof!! Of the existentialist fiction I read, Fyodor Dostoyevsky was the heaviest of them all🤯), my 2021 read had me swell with questions, doubts, rage, mixed emotions and unexplainable longing.
It was a year of heavy genre perhaps the more reason I talked little about my readings in the course of the year.
I wouldn’t do a review of any for now but trust that I would form conversations around each, highlighting their theme and style.
Have you read any of those that made the list?
Is existentialist literature one you are willing to explore?
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We have read Crime & Punishment by Dostoyevsky. Existentialist Fiction is worth the time for those that want to live more slowly and deliberately. It can be a violent interruption of comfort and carefree living, so one needs to pack a lot of mental energy for the journey
Crime & Punishment is damning in one word. The writing is thick with long convoluted lines of monologue and every character is deeply convoluted. It's very human and we see why Nietzsche described Dostoyevsky as the only psychologist he knew
