Confession of a Literary Scholar: How to Understand Books from Dostoevsky to King

In this book, there are no large literary analyses. What is the point of them after the works of Bakhtin, Lotman, Dunaev, and Nabokov? Before you is a story about how literature intertwines with the life of an ordinary person and how one can find answers to all important questions - it is only necessary to choose the right moment for reading, to see and hear the hints hidden by writers in the pages of their works.
The author of this book, philologist, journalist, and blogger Nikolai Zharinov, speaks about the books that accompanied him through the most significant and pivotal events in his life. We see how attitudes toward Dostoevsky's "Crime and Punishment" change with age, why King's books become the best friends of teenagers, and how Bunin managed to turn trivial stories into true art.
This is a confession, subjective from beginning to end, personal, not claiming to be the truth. Argue, disagree, criticize - nothing is prohibited. After all, literature can truly be understood only by living it through one’s own emotions.