Dostoyevsky's White Nights and Bobok from Penguin Classics Please be considerate if I cannot write in Korean 🙇🏻‍♀️ Thank you 🙏🏻 I find the Russian classic literature writers to be quite intimidating because of their names being difficult for me to spell and pronounce and also with the Russians giving off the impression that they are highly intellectual with little room for humor but I wanted to start reading them in English because I think I am missing out a lot by focusing on the usual American and English classics and contemporary Asian literature. I picked up this book mainly because I thought Nevskaya Palitra White Nights watercolors was named after Dostoyevsky's work but nah, I'm mistaken. In St. Petersburg from late May to mid-July is a phenomenon known as "white nights" where "the sun does not dip far enough below the horizon for the sky to get completely dark" (AI-supplied research). In the beginning of White Nights was a narrative where the colors of St. Petersburg buildings and houses were being described and I thought it was so beautiful and so suitable for a Nevskaya Palitra palette. But that is not the point I really want to make. I think if one would like to take a dip into Russian literature, this Penguin Classics Dostoyevsky of two stories is good enough and will not leave the reader confused, bored, and exhausted abandoning Russian literature all together after one reading. It can be read in one sitting, preferably when one is not suffering from unrequited love because White Nights can leave the reader devastated and in shambles. Bobok is amusing, too, and it left me with more questions than answers which I find to be the w❄︎ point of the story. I recommend you pick this up for light classic Russian Literature reading. What to read next is up to you but I'm picking up Saki now, and will get another Russian literature book after doing my research on which one will also be easy to digest. Thanks for getting this far. Keep safe everyone especially our 🥛🤍👼🏻 #이준혁 #LeeJunHyuk