holy shit what a trip. Dostoevsky really is talented. even Nabokov himself couldn't deny the genius present here
only thing that bothered me is how he didn't recognize Krestyan Ivanovich. I guess you can obviously chock it up to his state of mind, but that isn't very satisfying to me
I would be happy if someone could pose as me and everyone just loved them outright. Just means some config of myself works.
>>24832719Pretty sure Nabokov said all those things about this work as a piss-take. The Double is one of his worst works, absolutely miserable prose.
>>24832761it's "chalk it up to".chocks exist, as in chocking a truck on a hill by placing a brick or piece of wood behind the tyre, but the colloquialism here uses chalk. as if there were a blackboard where the score is kept.