Rakitin the evil monk is the true secret antihero of Brothers K
Corrupting the youth, making faces behind the elder, getting friendzoned by Grushenka, handing out hoarded sausage
What a journey
Revealing in the third (fourth?) act that your book is set in "Cow town"
Just dostoevsky things
Dostoevsky's editor: so that's two kopeks per word, net 30 after publication...
Madame Khokhlakov:
D man chugging an old-timey vial of Dr. Zorba's Morphium Liniment, taking huge rips on the pipe, getting ready to write another Madame K passage
.. just learned about The Affair of the Sausages, is Rakitin offering Alyosha some pocket sausage a deep cut from the Swiss reformation? Can Dostoevsky write two pages without hating on some heresy? (no)
Ivan predicting exactly how Rakitin's going to sell out, running not-too-edgy socialist magazine, investing his money (evil!), the neighborhood he'll build his house
Brutal roast, wonder who it was meant as a parody of
Seriously, how many enemies did Dostoevsky make running that lit journal
There's a thinly veiled jab at somebody every other page
Plus, everybody in Brothers K complaining about "realism" .. from Dmitri the deranged party animal to Kolya the insufferable tween
Is Dostoevsky joking? Is he screwing with critics who complain his novels are unrealistic, just dressed-up allegories? Or the reverse?