A beautiful read, a short story that will linger long in the memory and one that will be revisited. Clear to see how Dostoyevsky is a master of his craft and gets right to the heart of the human condition.

At times this was heart warming and heart breaking, two lonely souls who find love and a connection however fleeting it may be. Though I finished reading this yesterday it has lingered in my mind all day, it was heartbreakingly beautiful and I found myself empathising and feeling the lead characters loneliness in life, something I have lived through and live through too. We all have our own loneliness in life and have wasted years we later look back on with regret and sadness. This passage really hit me.

Ultimately the character in this story is an early version nice guy who gets friendzoned.

The second short story I read but didn’t care for, its the titular story that gets all the glory