#honestly i could reread Demons endlessly

[metidax]

In the first chapters of Demons Dostoevsky mentioned that Nikolai Stavrogin's face resembles a mask. And I've just realize that it's a reference to a death-mask because by the beggining of the plot Stavrogin - as a person - is already dead. Аll is left is facade, a death-mask of human being who once might experience emotions, passions and sorrows. But in the present he is hollow, and we could find it out by just one comparison