The poor

The first work of Dostoevsky, is the novel that made him immediately a famous name and suddenly propelled him to the forefront of the Russian literary scene. In Poor Folk, Dostoevsky writes about the marginalized and those whose lives are filled with setbacks. A brief about the novel Poor Folk: The faces we see in this work, which is Dostoevsky’s first work, will be encountered in his other works. They are the faces of "the poor" and their ways of living. So we share their suffering as much as we understand what those souls contain in their capacity for love and sacrifice. In this novel, we will sense the deep abysses Dostoevsky will penetrate, and the metaphysical depths to which his novels will go, diving deep into the dimensions of the human character, especially in depicting the lives of the poor and marginalized and entering their psychological worlds, which will be the focus of most of his novels. The protagonists in this novel are oppressed, tortured, humiliated, and disgraced, subjected to all kinds of injustice by villains, and they endure poverty that is unbearable. Makhar Dvoyshkin endures humiliation and hunger and sacrifices everything he can get, which is very little, for the sake of the poor girl 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 experienced by Makhar Dvoyshkin, Dostoevsky reveals all the poverty surrounding him. When the man is about to complain and grumble about the suffering that good people endure in this world, we see him retreat from complaining and grumbling, submitting to reality, and yielding to the will of fate, his only concern being to make others happy with 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 the lavish life he led and his addiction to gambling. Although he had translated several foreign novels, they did not bring him much success, so he decided to write a novel himself in an attempt to raise money. Contemporary critics praised the novel for its humanitarian themes. Vesaryon Belenksy described it as the first "social novel" in Russia, and Alexander Herzen called it “a great socialist work.” Poor Folk, Dostoevsky quotes: How miserable life is and how many sorrows it contains. It is heartbreaking to hear someone ask for charity and then be forced to go without giving anything.