In everything Dostoyevsky wrote, he was writing about his spiritual research and exploration, and looking for solutions to the issues that worried him, but which would not be solved, as he himself clearly realized. And all of his heroes, including those who differ greatly from him in terms of his moral formation, struggle with the issues that Dostoyevsky himself wrestled with throughout his life. He is the spiritual father of all his main heroes, meaning that he represented a model for them. There is not a single person, among those whom he created and created, who did not copy him from himself, even if in a different way.
The life of a great personality becomes intelligible to us to the extent that we are able to delve into it, with one look, in the full diversity of its characteristics, which are often contradictory, but stemming from a single root. If we are not able to accomplish this, then in one way or another, in one way or another; We will simplify and impoverish this great personality.
If a biography of Dostoevsky's life was written without considering his novels, it would be worth nothing, and it would be impossible to restore the formation of his personality without his works. Dostoyevsky's realistic, experimental biography for understanding his novels is no less important than his novels themselves for understanding his personality. On the pages of Dostoevsky's novels, all of humanity's history, thought, and culture are revived, reflected in individual consciousness.
In order to understand the true importance of Dostoyevsky, which he has acquired in our time, a frank conversation is necessary.
Aguilar realizes that something irreparable has happened to his wife as soon as he enters the hotel room where she is staying. He tries to discover the identity of the man who was with her, and to find out what specifically happened that put her in this strange state, but he discovers how little he knows about the deep turmoil hidden in the past of this woman, who found that her only weapon was to build her own world and withdraw behind the thick walls of madness.
Through a revolving narrative, Colombian writer Laura Restrepo enters the minds of four characters, trying to reveal their contradictions, their stormy lives, their turmoil, and their intimate details, charmingly intertwining violence, crime, love, and loyalty.
“Delirium,” which won the Alphaguara Prize in 2004, is a novel that, through the succession of voices it narrates, will immerse you in vortexes of delirium, too.
