“I’m not sure why people interpreted it as a romance rather than a novella on loneliness,” she says, “it’s quite scary that the two have been conflated really.” She thinks young people’s fatigue with app-based dating might be a part of why the book has been hitting home for them. “I wonder if people think that the narrator and Nastenka simply meeting in person is romantic in itself.”
— Read on www.theguardian.com/books/2024/dec/17/white-nights-fyodor-dostoevsky-social-media-instagram-booktok-tiktok
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