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This is a fantastic essay. When I first read it, it hit me like a wall of emotion, but I couldn't seem to grasp why.
It was only after I read Henrik Karlsson's "Dostoevsky as lover" that I truly understood what you are saying. henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/do…
In it, he describes how Dostoevsky treats his characters not as mere collections of trait…
This is a fantastic essay. When I first read it, it hit me like a wall of emotion, but I couldn't seem to grasp why.
It was only after I read Henrik Karlsson's "Dostoevsky as lover" that I truly understood what you are saying. https://www.henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/doestoevsky-as-lover
In it, he describes how Dostoevsky treats his characters not as mere collections of traits, but as human beings, and seems to listen to what they actually want to do, not what they must do to advance the story. Henrik suggests that love is when we treat people this way—not letting them be defined by our stories about them.