 ", Dobrolyubov's abrasive journalism, Turgenev's "Fathers and Sons" and Dostoevsky's own "The Possessed").Janko Lavrin, who took part in the revolutions of the World War I era, knew Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky and many others, and later would spend years writing about Dostoevsky's novels and other Russian classics, called this final dream "prophetic in its symbolism".The above opening sentence of the novel has a symbolic function