Parasocial internal monologue.
Dosto, and many authors, was probably an NPC. Only way for them to process thoughts is by writing or talking to someone.

>>25213502
Honestly most of the best speeches are at the start, unless you count the confession letters

>>25213502
It's based on a true story.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Nechaev

>>25213711
The first 1/3rd of the book is just the introduction.

I loved this book.

>>25213502
I use this book to store my all my cash money because that thing is so thick

>>25214048
Yeah. I know. And it contains some of the best content in the book. Have you actually read it?
If anything it's Part 3 which is the weakest as it's replete with disjointed action and unsatisfying dead-end plot threads, especially if your copy puts at Tikhon's as an appendix rather than at the end of P2

>>25213502
his best book btw
Crime and Punishment reads like juvenilia after Demons, and TBK is overlong and focuses too much on Dmitri being a retard and not enough on Ivan's poetry and dreams