Many people have interpreted Dostoevsky's short story "The Crocodile" as satirizing the writing of this novel.
Many people have interpreted Dostoevsky's short story "The Crocodile" as satirizing the writing of this novel. In this novel, the medical student Lopukhov enters into a marriage of convenience with a woman who later marries her true love, who shares his name with Turgenev's character Kirsanov. That woman, Vera Pavlovna, is aided by the "extraordinary man" (*) Rakhmetov, and imagines a socialist utopia in her so-called "fourth dream." That dream's imagery of the Crystal Palace is referenced by Dostoevsky's Underground Man. The fourth chapter of Nabokov's The Gift is a biography of this novel's author. A 1902 pamphlet by Lenin is named after this novel. For 10 points, name this novel by Nikolai Chernyshevsky.
Many people have interpreted Dostoevsky's short story "The Crocodile" as satirizing the writing of this novel.
{What Is to Be Done?} [or {Chto delat’?}]