"Did you really not read all of my letter? Maybe you didn't read it at all?"
So Shatov asks Nikolai Stavrogin in Dostoevsky's The Possessed (that's what my translation is called, anyway; apparently it also goes by Demons). And I want to ask if anyone in this book reads all of anyone's letters? Maybe they don't read them at all!
Seriously. Mrs. Stavrogin has no use for Verkhovensky's copious letters, Nikolai also doesn't read all that Peter has written him...is this what the story turns on? Nobody reading the letters they receive?
Only one way to find out. BACK TO THE BOOK.
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