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Help a pseudo-brainlet engineer out /lit/. In Dostoyevsky's 'Brothers Karamozov', chapter 8 Over the Brandy, Fyódor refers to "Bare-footed girls"; what does he mean by this?
>inb4 Google
I tried, couldn't find anything.

>> No.10754492

Girls without shoes?

>> No.10754514

probably a russian word for peasant girls akin to red-neck
usually hypenated phrases in translation are concepts unique to the language that cant really be translated

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>>10754492

>> No.10755113

>>10754473
My grandmother grew up in rural Russia (this was during the 1930s and 1940s). It wasn't uncommon for a peasant family to share 1 or 2 pairs of shoes for everyone. Meaning, most of the time people walked around barefoot.

So I don't think it has any deeper meaning than that. Though them being bare-footed probably does denote their class and economic status. In other words lower-class and poor.

>> No.10755123

>>10754473
others have elucidated the plain meaning already, my mentally-challenged friend, but what was it that struck you about this particular phrase such that you felt compelled to start an entire thread on /lit/?