"How, how can I persuade you not to persecute me with your kindness?"
It's shit like this that leaves me unable to figure out at what point I'm weepy over legit heartwrenching bits of media, vs. weepy because I'm tired, vs. weepy because I'm a crybaby.

White Nights

Rome, Italy
People gather at sunset for a reading of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s White Nights during The Silent Storm (La Tempesta Silenziosa), a mass reading initiative conceived by Alessandro Baricco and organised by the city’s culture department.

Photograph: Francesco Fotia/AGF/Shutterstock

#photography
#Italy
#Rome
#books
#reading
#Dostoevsky

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/zv9bBWtLKVU

Dostoevsky: A Journey Through Sentences
A quick, visual journey through five of Fyodor Dostoevsky's most profound sentences. Brought to life through AI video.
#dostoevsky #quotes #aivideocreation #philosophy

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/52Z8zXjKpl0

A quiet travel through sentences. We wander through the melancholic and surreal world of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s White Nights, exploring five profound quotes about isolation, the weight of dreams, and the fleeting nature of human connection.

#Dostoevsky #WhiteNights #LostQuotes #RussianLiterature #Existentialism #LiteratureQuotes

𝑳𝒊𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒓𝒚 𝑵𝒐𝒎𝒂𝒅𝒔 - 𝑵𝒐𝒎𝒂𝒅𝒊𝒄 𝑫𝒆𝒑𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒆𝒔 -

We are left on the precipice of a severe, unavoidable aporia: when the Empire can absorb and commercialize our very language of protest, the only true ethical act of agency is to stop performing the script, reject the easy answer, and step directly out into the unimaginable dark.

https://waywordsstudio.com/podcasts/waywords_podcast/nomadic-departures/

#podcast #literature #books #markfisher #dostoevsky #aporia #Utopia #Resistance #Capitalism #pinkfloyd #darksideofthemoon

I'm a couple of hours into Crime and Punishment. Blimey it's harsh and cheerless!

#books #reading #dostoevsky

Honoré de #Balzac (May 20, 1799 – August 18, 1850) wanted to do with the pen what Napoleon had done with the sword.

And in a way, he did. His influence reached #Dostoevsky, Zola, Flaubert, Proust, Dickens, Wilde, and Baldwin. Dostoevsky’s first published book was a Russian translation of Balzac’s Eugénie Grandet.

@bookstodon #books #reading #bookstodon

Coming up: Could a doubting faith actually be the best kind of #faith? Josh and Ray have no doubt about questioning the novels of Fyodor #Dostoevsky with Garry Hagberg from @bardcollege, author of "Living in Words: Literature, Autobiographical Language, and the Composition of Selfhood."

🎧 Sunday 11 am on KALW 91.7 FM in San Francisco & online at https://www.kalw.org/show/philosophy-talk/2026-05-15/dostoevsky-and-doubting #philosophy #fiction #God