Humiliated, insulted

Once again, Dostoevsky enters a world full of emotions of all kinds, where we find extreme cases of love, compassion, pity, noble stances, and unlimited readiness to sacrifice. We also find evil, injustice, hatred, cruelty, arrogance, and pride that lead to foolish behaviors. In this novel, Dostoevsky presents his view of the confusing and contradictory nature of overwhelming love, even to the point of humiliation. How this love, when extreme, causes the weak party to pay a high price. This is the case of Natasya, who gave her heart and her family's honor, sacrificing everything without hesitation. She was forced to bear the consequences of this love, face the evil represented by her beloved prince and father, Alyosha, and overlook her childish lover’s weakness and his submission to his whims, even accepting his love for another woman. In addition to the wonderful models of the novel’s characters and its strange worlds, what makes the reader yearn for the novel and follow it passionately is the story of the girl Nellie, the daughter of injustice and suffering, who turned into a beggar in her childhood so as not to violate her mother’s last wish, which was to prevent her from going to the rich to preserve her dignity. George Haldas says about the novel: "It is a good entry into Dostoevsky’s labyrinth, which the novel 'Humiliated and Insulted' forms the first stage of." Dr. Sami Al-Droubi’s translation is not just a transfer of text into Arabic, but an act of creative translation by a lover of Dostoevsky’s works. It is an inspired translation that has been acknowledged by Arab Dostoevsky readers as incomparable.