White Nights by Fyodor Dostoyevsky – Book Review

White Nights by Fyodor Dostoevsky is a frustrating and surprisingly shallow short story that, despite all the praise it has accumulated over the years, left me questioning whether its dreamy, lovesick narrator is meant to be sympathized with or simply observed from a careful and critical distance, and whose companion piece in this edition, Bobok, did nothing to soften that disappointment. The post…