The poor

A brief about the book The faces we see in this work, which is Dostoevsky's first work, we will encounter in his other works. They are the faces of "the poor" and their ways of life. So we share their suffering as much as we understand the capacity for love and sacrifice hidden within those souls. In this novel, we will sense the deep abysses that Dostoevsky will penetrate into, and the metaphysical depths that his novels will explore as they delve deeply into the dimensions of the human character, especially in depicting the lives of the poor and marginalized and entering their psychological worlds around which most of his novels revolve. The two protagonists in this novel are oppressed, tortured, humiliated, and disgraced, subjected to all kinds of injustice by villains, and they bear an unbearable level of poverty. Makhar bears humiliation and hunger and sacrifices everything he can get, which is very little, for the poor girl whom he barely sees and dares not visit for fear of gossip. He accepts deprivation for her happiness, sending her small gifts while enduring cold, hunger, and humiliation. Through the poverty endured by Makhar Deyvushkin, Dostoevsky reveals all the poverty surrounding him, and when the man is about to complain and grumble about the suffering endured by the good people in this world, we see him retreat from complaint and grumbling, surrendering to reality, submissive to the will of fate, his only concern being to make others happy with naive simplicity that carries a surprisingly human spirit...." It is Fyodor Dostoevsky's first novel, written over nine months between 1844 and 1845. Dostoevsky was in financial distress due to the lavish life he led and because of his addiction to gambling. Although he had translated several foreign novels, he did not achieve notable success, and he decided to write a novel himself in an attempt to raise money."...."Contemporary critics praised the novel for its humanitarian themes. Vissarion Belinsky called it the first "social novel" in Russia, and Alexander Herzen described it as “a great socialist work." Publisher: Al-Tanweer for the author Dostoevsky, translated by Sami Al-Droubi