In my basement

Book title: In My Dungeon Author: Dostoevsky Publisher: Ninawa Book classification: Novel Number of pages: 208 About the book: The "hero" of this book is a person who dwells in his dungeon, curses the light and blesses the darkness, denies mankind's pursuit of a better world, and glorifies his continuation in his filthy life and his dirty world. He doubts goodness and believes in evil. Dostoevsky, who spent ten years in exile in Siberia and was almost executed and then escaped death moments before it, this great writer who loved political freedom in his youth and fought for it at the dawn of his life, quickly turned against this freedom not only to be its enemy but to make people doubt it and call them to disbelief and mockery of it, pushing them toward a wild, deviant individualism. In this "Dungeon," he presents his views on life and death, good and evil, war and peace, in a wonderful artistic manner. He speculates in his book about the Russian revolution, whose vanguard appeared on the horizon, creeping stealthily, frightening the enemies of freedom, causing them to retreat into their tunnels, and deceiving themselves into saying that it is nothing but a delusion, falsehood, and wind-catching. Then they collapse onto their desks, terrified and afraid, writing books in its condemnation.