/lit/ - Literature

ITT: God-tier book covers; I'll start.

Do you think Stavrogin's suicide was a moral choice? I thought it did more ill than good. His extreme refusal of life ended up ruining Lizaveta and Mavriky as well.

>And there was one herd of many swine feeding on this mountain; and they besought him that he would suffer them to enter into them. And he suffered them.
>Then went the devils out of the man and entered into the swine; and the herd ran violently down a steep place into the lake and were choked.
>When they that fed them saw what was done, they fled, and went and told it in the city and in the country.
>Then they went out to see what was done; and came to Jesus and found the man, out of whom the devils were departed, sitting at the feet of Jesus, clothed and in his right mind; and they were afraid.

Okay, I'm sorry, what was that recurrent metaphor about? How is it concretely related to the book? Who is compared to what?

Why is Nikolai Stavrogin considered the most important character in this book? I mean, aside from the fact that he practically does nothing, he mostly represents a *different* version of Kirillov, with less control of himself.
I don't get it why such a character is so fascinating, I don't understand why he gives me shivers. He waits and sits, everybody is around him and does everything to please him but he isn't even asking. He simply exists and moves everything without his will. I mean, what the fuck, what do you think of him? Overrated character? Or maybe the author itself was infatuated with him and wanted the reader to feel the same? Was Dosto homosexual?

>>4450007
Finished The Idiot last month, it was great. Reading Demons currently.

I think that this book is the best fucking book ever. What can u recommend to me?

>>3827357
Obviously. Anyone whose read up on the movement will find out as much eventually.
They get very uppity about their reputation as kiddies with A-tags right up until someone points out their icons such as Bakunin being amoral fuckwits who destroyed any shred of credibility they ever had.
Good luck keeping any support for a movement once it's most prominent members become famous for handing other people over to the state in hopes of making them radicalized and thus better tools.