Reviews
Their love was beautiful, but reality proved stronger in the end, and poverty took away even their choices.
Misery is contagious. Unhappy and poor people should avoid one another so they won’t keep spreading it. I can relate, but it also leaves a sore spot in my heart. They say sharing joy doubles it, but sharing sorrow turns it into misery and hell. People say that these days, right? It doesn’t seem wrong. I think that’s especially true when the misery is poverty...
Poverty can make life hard and lead someone to the “entrance” to ruin. But in the end, isn’t it “people” and “love” that bring a person to ruin?
It is the thing that can make people happiest or most miserable, make them feel wretched or proud. This book keeps you thinking about and searching for that thing, which is not money.
A novel in letters, made up of 55 letters and Barbara’s journal. It explores why poverty eats away at the souls of two lovers—and what poverty means.
A poor woman and a poor man. The feelings they exchange in letters seem futile in the face of poverty. They worry about each other, but in reality they keep talking only about their own hardships. Lack of money eats away at their bodies, minds, and hearts. Their relationship binds each of them in the other’s cycle of poverty. Dostoevsky is, as always, easy to read.
The Minumsa World Literature Series is very affordable, yet so well translated that it’s easy to read. The works have been carefully selected over many years, and I’m always moved whenever I read them.
The Minumsa World Literature Series is very affordable, yet so well translated that it’s easy to read. The works have been carefully selected over many years, and I’m always moved whenever I read them.
When I read Crime and Punishment in middle school, it was printed vertically, and as my eyes moved up and down the page, I often ended up reading the same sentence twice. The characters’ names were especially difficult. They were long, and each person had two or three names, so I didn’t properly distinguish the characters until about a third of the way through. I was young then, but I still grappled, however naively, with human nature, humanism, ethics, and philosophy. Because of the title Poor
This book made me think about poverty again. Rather than dividing people into right and wrong, upper and lower classes, it gave me a chance to reflect once more on human social psychology.
Fyodor Dostoevsky: poor people
The landmark first novel that announced the arrival of the great writer Dostoevsky. Through the poverty and suffering of people oppressed and marginalized in the vast chasm of an unequal society, it explores the meaning of a true life and the human condition.
Korean title: 가난한 사람들
Korean author: 표도르 도스토옙스키
Korean publisher: 민음사
ISBN-13: 9788937464430
Reviews
Their love was beautiful, but reality proved stronger in the end, and poverty took away even their choices.
Misery is contagious. Unhappy and poor people should avoid one another so they won’t keep spreading it. I can relate, but it also leaves a sore spot in my heart. They say sharing joy doubles it, but sharing sorrow turns it into misery and hell. People say that these days, right? It doesn’t seem wrong. I think that’s especially true when the misery is poverty...
Poverty can make life hard and lead someone to the “entrance” to ruin. But in the end, isn’t it “people” and “love” that bring a person to ruin?
It is the thing that can make people happiest or most miserable, make them feel wretched or proud. This book keeps you thinking about and searching for that thing, which is not money.
A novel in letters, made up of 55 letters and Barbara’s journal. It explores why poverty eats away at the souls of two lovers—and what poverty means.
A poor woman and a poor man. The feelings they exchange in letters seem futile in the face of poverty. They worry about each other, but in reality they keep talking only about their own hardships. Lack of money eats away at their bodies, minds, and hearts. Their relationship binds each of them in the other’s cycle of poverty. Dostoevsky is, as always, easy to read.
The Minumsa World Literature Series is very affordable, yet so well translated that it’s easy to read. The works have been carefully selected over many years, and I’m always moved whenever I read them.
The Minumsa World Literature Series is very affordable, yet so well translated that it’s easy to read. The works have been carefully selected over many years, and I’m always moved whenever I read them.
When I read Crime and Punishment in middle school, it was printed vertically, and as my eyes moved up and down the page, I often ended up reading the same sentence twice. The characters’ names were especially difficult. They were long, and each person had two or three names, so I didn’t properly distinguish the characters until about a third of the way through. I was young then, but I still grappled, however naively, with human nature, humanism, ethics, and philosophy. Because of the title Poor
This book made me think about poverty again. Rather than dividing people into right and wrong, upper and lower classes, it gave me a chance to reflect once more on human social psychology.
