![]() ![]() After all that, you might be prepared for his books to be a letdown. Oh, and he once got led out to be shot by a firing squad, only to have his sentence commuted at the very last minute. Quite apart from the early death of his mother, his first wife and two of his children, he got sent to a Siberian prison camp for political sedition, repeatedly lost all his family’s money having convinced himself he had an infallible ‘system’ for roulette and wrote most of his books under tremendous pressure to pay off his debts, which exacerbated his epilepsy. Even if the nineteenth-century Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky hadn’t written any books (and he wrote a lot), he would probably have got some sort of recognition for having one of the shittest lives ever in an era and country not short on shitty lives. ![]()
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