#for all that the narrator loves alyosha they do not extend that same affection to pavel | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

pasdetrois · 22 days ago

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still very much of the opinion that more people would appreciate pavel if they were able to look past the narrator's bias. the question of the narrator’s exact identity, ephemeral and shifting as it is, warrants consideration here as well.

#i made a tongue in cheek post about the narrator question in demons as well but #whether it’s dostoevsky himself (the whole time? perhaps only some of the time?)#or some amalgamation of the town itself #or some secret third thing in the vein of bakhtin’s uncontrollable characters theory #for all that the narrator loves alyosha they do not extend that same affection to pavel #(also interesting to consider how much of himself and his son he put into these two characters)#i suppose i’m separating narrator and narrative in my mind though bc i don’t believe you’re meant to #leave the story despising pavel. if anything i feel like it’s natural to feel the compassion for him that no one in the story could #i mean readers evidently feel it for ivan so why not his double?#the brothers karamazov #📘.txt #lit tag

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