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Do you recommend reading what's left of Part II? Or just call it a day after Part I?

>> No.9554847

>>9554178
Part 2 is only like 100-150 pages, explains what was left totally unsaid (and necessary) in part 1, and transforms the story from a psuedo-epic à la quixote to a more typically russian morally christian didactic story.

So yes read part 2.

>> No.9555399

>>9554847
I read it a few months ago and part 2 seemed so disjointed and incoherent that I dropped it without finishing. I would read it if it left off at some distinct point, but there are massive gaps between the existing sections where characters should be introduced and all kinds of actual important development is lost. I think I read enough to figure out where he was going with it generally but damn was it a jarring experience.
Part 1 is among my favorite novels though, possibly the best russian one I've read yet.

>> No.9555402

>>9554178
I skipped ahead to The Namesake