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dostoevsky's girlies
7 items
By
Glorya Margareth
Theme: moral anguish, spiritual guilt, empathy born from torment.
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Because it’s the original fever dream of guilt, where the mind becomes its own courtroom.
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Colonial guilt, sexual violence, and dual identity written like a haunting confession.
Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih
Family trauma as divine tragedy; where love violates every social and moral rule.
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
A modern descent into the same moral abyss where rational evil rendered in meticulous prose.
The Kindly Ones by Jonathan Littell
A manifesto for every overthinker who mistakes pain for authenticity.
Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The criminal act as liberation when guilt recoded as survival in an indifferent society.
Out by Natsuo Kirino
A post-apartheid reckoning where guilt, desire, and dignity collapse into one.
Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee
