The poor - Dostoevsky

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 realize what those souls hide of the capacity for love and sacrifice. In this novel, we will sense the deep abysses Dostoevsky will penetrate, and the metaphysical depths 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, which most of his novels revolve around. The two protagonists in this novel are oppressed, tortured, humiliated, and degraded, subjected to all kinds of injustice by villains, and they endure poverty that is unbearable. Makhar Divoshkin bears humiliation and hunger and sacrifices everything he can get, which is very little, for the poor girl he hardly 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 Divoshkin, Dostoevsky reveals all the poverty surrounding him, and when the man is about to complain and grumble about the suffering he endures, we see him retreat from complaint and grumbling, accepting reality, submissive to the will of fate, his only concern being to make others happy with a naive simplicity that carries a surprisingly human spirit... This is Fyodor Dostoevsky's first novel, written over nine months between 1844 and 1845. Dostoevsky was in financial distress due to his lavish lifestyle and his addiction to gambling. Although he had translated several foreign novels, they did not bring him notable success, so 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." Number of pages: 214. Publisher: Dar Al-Tanweer. Author: Dostoevsky.