Raskolnikov

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Right. For this one I will try not to provide with much information as it would be quite obvious. I am a central figure of a psychologicaa book. I am a sailor full of remorse. I am mentally broken as I have missed the opportunity to be a hero and at the same time I behaved like a coward.

Jane Eyre! Sorry for that. Things are somehow so obvious that we may miss them.

Looks like A little Princess from Burnett but I haven't read it, so I am not sure. Any clue?

Correct! Now you are doomed : it's up to you to make us chase for a book character defined by your own sensibility and clues.

Hello all, Apologies if there is already a thread regarding this but could not find it. I wanted to come up with a quizz thread where one should guess where a character is coming from. The one who answers and find both character and author may be able to start a new quizz. So I start with an easy one : I am a persevering child coping with many sorrows. My father is dead and my stepfather is severe. Fortunately, my nurse loves me. My aunt is providing me with good education. I will work for a notary who will escape bankruptcy. My best friend are books and I will become a writter and, at last, find in Australia the woman that was waiting for me. Who am I ?

I never thought of this comparison! But maybe you can enlighten us. Everytime I think of Madame Bovary, Anna Karenin's fate or Virgina Woolf's detiny actually come up to my mind. General unsatisfaction, mysterious, elusive characters and a tragic end.

Thanks for your comments. It's not that big. It's just a whole wall 2.5 x 5. The first shelves (down) are dedicated to kids' books.

Sorry I could not type more as the number of letters was limited / This is only what is left on my shelves. Most of these are classics as you can see. Nothing intentionnally pretentious or nose in the air from my part as I wnted to share this with you. It took me years to read it with my wife and I am now trying to push my kids to grow with books in their hands.

Here is what's left from my library. Everything is ordered chronologically Antics-Modern Greek Cynicals, / Apul

Hello, What are you specifically looking for in french? What style, era?

All the books above are great. Here is my choices - Tolstoy, The Kreutzer sonata / very radical and intense drama about jalousy and crime - Dostoievsky, The Idiot / What if Jesus was alive now ? His kindness and lack of self-esteem would make of him a pure "idiot" in the balance of our judgemental societies - Huysmans, Against nature / This is the yellow book given by Lord Henry to Dorian Gray / The story of decadent man who indulges his own passions in order to live remote in an excentric house at the end of the 19th century

Hello all, Dostoievsky's style is not Nihilist. He displays Nihilism in many of his books (Notes from the underground, Karamazov Brothers, The Idiot, etc...) but he's not a nihilist himself as he deeply believes in god. Dostoievsky is not an existentialist either as exitentialism relate to Sartre and co's style which is far from Dostoievsky's. If I would define his style I would use words such as mystic, russian, deep-psychology, drama.