Neighbor - weak heart

In the novel The Neighbor, written by the young Dostoevsky, he says, in the words of Catherine, the protagonist of the novel: "Grant freedom to a weak man, who himself rejects it and returns it to you." In this way, he raises the problem of freedom and will, which he will return to in a number of his novels. Catherine wants to give sincere love to a person worthy of her, but she cannot break free from the shackles of past mistakes, and this is what characterizes Nastasya, the heroine of the novel "The Idiot", and also Grushenka, the heroine of "The Brothers Karamazov."

Concerning the novel, Ernest Hemingway said, "Dostoevsky had things we believed and others we didn't, but some things were so true that they changed us as we read."

While Hermann Hesse says, "Reading Dostoevsky is like looking at our ruins."